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Japan Air Lines Flight 301

9 Apr 1952 · Mount Mihara, Izu Ōshima, Japan

Martin 2-0-2 · Controlled flight into terrain for unknown reasons

From Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND) to Fukuoka Airport (FUK)

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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
37 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
37
Survivors
0
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
Airline

Martin 2-0-2

Aircraft type
Martin 2
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
N93043
Onboard fatalities
37
Route
From Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)To Fukuoka Airport (FUK)

Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.

From the Wikipedia article

The crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 301 was an accident involving a Martin 2-0-2 of the Japanese airline Japan Air Lines on Mount Mihara, Izu Ōshima, Japan on 9 April 1952, killing all 37 people on board.

Accident

Flight 301 took off from Tokyo-Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan on the morning of April 9, 1952 on a scheduled flight to Fukuoka Airport in Fukuoka, Japan with a stopover in Itami Airport, Japan. The aircraft was carrying 4 crew members and 33 passengers. While flight 301 was cruising approximately 62 miles (100 km) south of Tokyo in marginal weather conditions, the aircraft crashed into the slope of Mount Mihara on Izu Ōshima at 8.07 am. The plane's wreckage was then discovered several hours after the crash, which revealed that none of the 37 people on board had survived.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Japan Air Lines Flight 301” (revision 1350640351, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article

Sources

Wikipedia article: Japan Air Lines Flight 301
Article
Japan Air Lines Flight 301
Revision
1350640351 · 2026-04-23 · retrieved 2026-09-18
Wikidata
Q10865450
Licence
Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
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Record
Wikipedia article "Japan Air Lines Flight 301" (page 72412499, revision 1350640351)
Date
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Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
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Aircraft, operator and route
Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
Operation
flight number in the article title
Fatalities
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Ground fatalities
not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
Summary
Wikipedia infobox: summary
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