Poor health of the pilot could lead to the crash in Japan – RIA Novosti

TOKYO, July 26 – RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Plyasunkova. The reason for the collapse of the five-seater light aircraft in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo, which killed three people, could become a technical malfunction of the aircraft or the pilot’s poor health .

“There is a possibility that an emergency has occurred as a result of engine trouble or pilot’s physical condition,” – said the TV channel NHK former airline pilot All Nippon A (ANA), the aviation expert Fumio Higuchi.

The channel said that at the time of the crash drove 36-year-old pilot. His total flight experience of a few hundred hours.

light aircraft, which was carrying five people crashed in a residential area of ​​Chofu in the west of the capital region in Japan on Friday at 10.58 local time (04.58 MSK) . The plane took off from Chofu Airport and was heading to the island of Izu with a day trip. The aircraft crashed on houses at a distance of 1.8 kilometers from the place of take-off. According to witnesses, after takeoff, the plane made strange rumbling sound.

So far, confirmed the death of three people, two of the victims were on board the aircraft at the time of the crash, another woman was in the house on which the plane fell . The other three passengers and one local resident were injured varying degrees of severity.

The crash site work firefighters and rescuers. According to preliminary data, the fire spread to five houses and several cars. The total area of ​​the fire is about 220 square meters.

Near the site of the crash is a school, a stadium, tennis courts and shops.