1968 Kadena Air Base Boeing B-52 crash
United States Air Force (USAF), 4252d Strategic Wing (4252d SW ) Boeing B-52D Stratofortress · Aborted take-off with runway overrun
From Kadena Air Base (DNA) to Kadena Air Base
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 5
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 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
- Military
Boeing B-52D Stratofortress
- Aircraft type
- Boeing B-52
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- 55-0103
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Kadena Air Base (DNA)To Kadena Air Base
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 19 November 1968, a United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed at Kadena Air Base on the island of Okinawa, Japan.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1968 Kadena Air Base Boeing B-52 crash
- Revision
- 1359675854 · 2026-06-16 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q29018010
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1968 Kadena Air Base Boeing B-52 crash" (page 53528060, revision 1359675854)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.