Fuji Air Lines Flight 902
Convair CV-240 · Collision with obstacles after runway excursion
From Kagoshima Airport (KOJ) to Oita Airport (OIT)
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
- 20 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 22
- 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
- 22
- 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
Convair CV-240
- Aircraft type
- Convair CV-240
- 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
- JA5098
- Operator
- Fuji Air Lines
- Onboard fatalities
- 20
- Route
- From Kagoshima Airport (KOJ)To Oita Airport (OIT)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
- Aircraft › Aircraft propeller/rotor
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
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
Fuji Air Lines Flight 902 was a domestic scheduled flight of Fuji Air Lines from Kagoshima to Ōita on 27 February 1964. On that day a Convair CV-240 crashed while landing at Ōita Airport, killing 20 of the 42 occupants on board.
Accident sequence
The flight from Kagoshima to Oita proceeded without any particular incidents. The pilots received clearance to land on runway 02 of Oita Airport. After touching down, the aircraft overran the end of the runway, collided 124 metres beyond it with a pile of tree trunks and plunged into a dry riverbed of the Urakawa River lying behind it. Of the 42 occupants, 20 died, including 18 passengers and two crew members. The remaining 22 occupants were injured.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The Japanese accident investigators attributed the accident to a combination of several factors. The landing had been carried out at an excessive landing speed, the reverse thrust function of the right propeller was out of service, and the braking performance of the foot brake was insufficient. The investigators could not determine to what extent each of the causes had contributed to the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Fuji-Air-Lines-Flug 902” (revision 252138905, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Fuji-Air-Lines-Flug 902
- Article
- Fuji-Air-Lines-Flug 902
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 252138905 · 2025-01-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q11456133
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Fuji-Air-Lines-Flug 902" (page 12324091, revision 252138905), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- 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
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.