ANC16WA016 · Mooney M20C
Mooney M20C · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Kobe Airport to Yao Airport
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's operation. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC16WA016
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Final · JTSB final report, 30 Mar 2017
- API-reported fatalities
- 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation Narrative disagrees
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Mooney M20C
- Aircraft type
- Mooney M20
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- JA3788
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Kobe AirportTo Yao Airport
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Approach · VFR go-around
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Documented · Crash site as stated in the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) final report. No uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On March 26, 2016 , about 1618 Local Time, a Mooney M20C airplane, Japan registration number JA3788, operated by the pilot, was destroyed by post crash fire following a loss of control while attempting a go-around at the Yao Airport, Osaka Prefecture. The pilot and three passengers received fatal injuries.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Japan. This report is for information purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained by the Government of Japan. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB)
2-1-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-Ku,
Tokyo 100-8918, Japan
Phone: +81-3-5253-8814
Fax: +81-3-5253-1677
https://www.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/english.html
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC16WA016
- Event ID
- 20160331X13422
- Case number
- ANC16WA016
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e479050cf0f3ebeb1cdd4f2ffb735d8e08bb4df722f3de0fad7013c653184dfa; retrieved 2026-09-14T21:43:45.299Z.
- Checked against the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) final report (2017-03-30) on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities, registration and damage. Taken from the report: place, crash-site coordinates, departure, destination and type of operation. Not checked: flight number, aircraft type, operator and ground fatalities.