Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces conduct a search for crew members at a reservoir in Inuyama, central Japan, Thursday, May 15, 2025, following the crash of an Air Self-Defense Force trainer jet Wednesday. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)
A Japanese military training plane has crashed near a lake not long after take-off with two people on board, authorities said.
“A T-4 training aircraft that belongs to the Air Self-defence Force crashed at 3.08pm after radar lost (it) near a lake... after taking off at Komaki Air Base” in central Japan, Defence Minister Gen Nakatani told reporters.
