Self-Defense Forces aircraft theft incident
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Fuji LM-1 Nikko · Inadequate aircraft control, unauthorized takeoff under the influence of alcohol
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
- 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
- Military
Fuji LM-1 Nikko
- Aircraft type
- Fuji LM-1
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Utsunomiya, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Self-Defense Forces aircraft joyride theft incident (Jieitai-ki norinige jiken) was an incident on 23 June 1973 (Shōwa 48) in which a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force member who had been drinking flew off in an aircraft and went missing together with the aircraft.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Japanese Wikipedia article “自衛隊機乗り逃げ事件” (revision 107741506, 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: 自衛隊機乗り逃げ事件
- Article
- 自衛隊機乗り逃げ事件
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 107741506 · 2025-12-26 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q11613089
- 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 "自衛隊機乗り逃げ事件" (page 457346, revision 107741506), 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 armed force or military unit 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.