All Nippon Airways Shimojishima overrun accident
Boeing 767 · Overrun due to pilot error during training
From Shimojishima Airport to Shimojishima Airport
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA02WA046
- 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
- Occurrence
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 3
- 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
- 1
- 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
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Boeing 767
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 767
- 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
- JA8254
- Operator
- All Nippon Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Shimojishima AirportTo Shimojishima 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: Shimojishima Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The All Nippon Airways Shimojishima overrun accident (Zennikkū-ki Shimojishima ōbāran jiko) is an aviation accident involving an All Nippon Airways aircraft that occurred at Shimojishima Airport on 26 June 2002 (Heisei 14).
Overview of the accident
At around 12:54 on 26 June, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 767-200 that was conducting touch-and-go training with one jet engine shut down at Shimojishima Airport in Okinawa Prefecture overran the runway, plunged into the grass on the east side of the runway, and came to a stop while destroying taxiway lights. Following this accident, Shimojishima Airport closed the runway.
The aircraft's tail section, both wingtips and other parts were damaged, and of the 3 crew members, 1 crew member (a trainee) suffered a head injury.
As a result of the subsequent investigation, the accident aircraft was found to have fractured frames in the rear fuselage and cracks in the skin. In addition, the ailerons at the tips of both wings and the APU were also damaged. As a result, it was judged that repair at Shimojishima Airport would be difficult and the aircraft was to be scrapped, and it was treated as the first hull loss accident of a Boeing 767 in Japan. At the time, Boeing 767s were being replaced with the -300 model, and the older -200 model was being retired.
Cause of the accident
The Civil Aviation Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism designated this case a "serious incident", but subsequently, because the extent of the damage required major repair, the Civil Aviation Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism recognised it as an "aviation accident", and the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission carried out an investigation into the cause of the accident.
Subsequently, on 28 November 2003, the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission compiled and published an aircraft accident investigation report citing as the main causes the trainee's piloting error, the instructor's lack of experience as an instructor for training in the actual aircraft together with insufficient guidance such as advice as an instructor, and inadequate education within All Nippon Airways on precautions and the like during training in the actual aircraft.
The report further pointed out the need to enhance education and training for instructors for training in the actual aircraft within All Nippon Airways, and deficiencies in communicating the points to note during touch-and-go training with one jet engine shut down in the training guidance procedures.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Japanese Wikipedia article “全日空機下地島オーバーラン事故” (revision 104788198, 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: 全日空機下地島オーバーラン事故
- Article
- 全日空機下地島オーバーラン事故
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 104788198 · 2025-05-08 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q11390298
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA02WA046
- Event ID
- 20020801X01280
- Case number
- DCA02WA046
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ja Wikipedia article "全日空機下地島オーバーラン事故" (page 2082351, revision 104788198), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case DCA02WA046 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: airport the Wikipedia infobox site names (OurAirports, exact name)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA02WA046
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "All Nippon Airways Shimojishima overrun accident" and NTSB case DCA02WA046, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.