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All Nippon Airways Oshima Airport overrun accident

8 Sept 1977 · Oshima Airport, Japan

All Nippon Airways (ANA) NAMC YS-11 · Overrun due to pilot error

From Tokyo International Airport to Oshima Airport

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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
55
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
13
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

NAMC YS-11

Aircraft type
Namc YS-11
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
JA8755
Onboard fatalities
0
Route
From Tokyo International AirportTo Oshima Airport

Approximate · Estimated position: Oshima 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 Oshima Airport overrun accident (Zennikkū-ki Ōshima Kūkō ōbāran jiko) is an aviation accident that occurred on 8 September 1977 (Showa 52).

Overview of the accident

All Nippon Airways Flight 855, which took off from Tokyo International Airport in Tokyo at 1 pm on 8 September 1977 (Showa 52), was operated with a YS-11 (registration: JA8755). It attempted to land from the south at Oshima Airport on Izu Ōshima at 1:44 pm, but after touching down around the middle of the 1200m runway, it overran, its wheels caught in a drainage ditch and broke off, it made a belly landing, and the aircraft was moderately damaged. In this accident, of the 55 passengers and crew, 13 passengers suffered injuries requiring 3 to 10 days to heal fully.

Cause of the accident

On 13 February 1980 (Showa 55), the Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission of the Ministry of Transport announced that the cause of this accident was that, on landing, the aircraft touched down at high speed near the centre marking of the rain-wet runway, so it could not stop within the runway and overran.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Japanese Wikipedia article “全日空機大島空港オーバーラン事故” (revision 97816014, 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: 全日空機大島空港オーバーラン事故
Article
全日空機大島空港オーバーラン事故
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
97816014 · 2023-11-09 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q11390301
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 "全日空機大島空港オーバーラン事故" (page 917684, revision 97816014), translated into English with AI assistance
Date
Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
Place and country
Wikipedia infobox: site
Map position
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)
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.