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Greater Japan Airways Aso forced landing

5 Feb 1940 · Ishigaki Town, Yaeyama District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, north coast of Uotsuri Island

Nakajima Aircraft DC-2 · Forced landing due to engine trouble

From Fukuoka to Taipei

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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
Occurrence
Event fatalities
0 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
13
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

Nakajima Aircraft DC-2

Aircraft type
Nakajima DC-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
J-BBOT
Onboard fatalities
0
Route
From FukuokaTo Taipei

Approximate · Estimated position: Ishigaki, Okinawa, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.

From the Wikipedia article

The Dai Nippon Airways Aso forced landing (Dai Nippon Kōkū Aso-gō fujichaku jiko) was an aviation accident in 1940 (Shōwa 15) in which a Japanese civil aircraft made a forced landing on Uotsuri Island in the Senkaku Islands due to engine trouble.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Japanese Wikipedia article “大日本航空阿蘇号不時着事故” (revision 100369910, 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: 大日本航空阿蘇号不時着事故
Article
大日本航空阿蘇号不時着事故
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
100369910 · 2024-05-15 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q11435741
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 "大日本航空阿蘇号不時着事故" (page 2647119, revision 100369910), 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.