Japan begins in almost 200 military training aircraft after the crash of emergency inspections

Tokyo (AP) – Japan's Air Force started the emergency inspections for emergency safety in all of his almost 200 military training aircraft after one of the planes crashed minutes after the start, the officials announced on Thursday.

The T-4 training plane operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force or Jasdf and with two service members fell into a reservoir on Wednesday, a few minutes after they were withdrawn from the Komaki Air Base in the central Japanese prefecture of Aichi.

While the search operation continued on Thursday after the missing aircraft and the two crew members, the military announced that all remaining 196 of the training aircraft stationed in Jasdf bases started with emergency inspections.

Her operation has been suspended since the crash and they remain ground until the cause identified and the security checks are completed, Hiroaki Uchikura, head of the Air Force, told reporters on Wednesday.

The crash is the youngest in a number of accidents for defense aircraft in recent years and comes at a time when Japan accelerates a military structure to prevent China's influence in the region and to double its defense expenditure, which causes concern that the financing of weapons can be prioritized before security measures.

The crashed plane was a 36-year-old T-4, which was operated in the southern Prefecture Miyazaki from the Nyutabaru air base. It was not equipped with a language recorder or a flight data recorder, a setback for the examination.

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani announced plans on Thursday to immediately adapt the training planes with language and flight data recordings.

The Jasdf said on Thursday that the plane had problems when it reached a height of 1,200 meters about a minute after the start. Kyodo News Agency said that the air traffic control had not received any contact from the T-4 plane via an emergency.

The troop said the plane was lost two minutes after departure from the radar and fell into a reservoir called Iruka Teich, about 10 kilometers northeast of the air base.

Witnesses told the NHK National broadcaster that at the time of the crash they heard a loud sound like thunder.

Rubers that were assumed that they are out of the plane, as well as life -saving devices and helmets of the crew were found near the reservoir.