Greater Japan Airways Aso forced landing
Nakajima Aircraft DC-2 · Forced landing due to engine trouble
From Fukuoka to Taipei
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
- Operator
- Greater Japan Airways
- 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.