Yokohama Airlines Soyokaze crash
Cessna 402A · The captain continued the flight in localised bad weather without grasping the terrain
From Monbetsu Airport to Sapporo Airfield
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
- 10 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- 0
- 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
Cessna 402A
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 402
- 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
- JA5162
- Operator
- Yokohama Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 10
- Route
- From Monbetsu AirportTo Sapporo Airfield
Approximate · Estimated position: Tsukigata, Hokkaido, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Yokohama Airlines Soyokaze crash (Yokohama Kōkū Soyokaze-gō tsuiraku jiko) was an aviation accident that occurred on 30 May 1972 (Shōwa 47).
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Japanese Wikipedia article “横浜航空そよかぜ号墜落事故” (revision 94447298, 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
Japanese Wikipedia article: 横浜航空そよかぜ号墜落事故
- Article
- 横浜航空そよかぜ号墜落事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 94447298 · 2023-03-23 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q11543251
- 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
- ja Wikipedia article "横浜航空そよかぜ号墜落事故" (page 1878211, revision 94447298), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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 airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Japanese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.