MOSCOW, December 1/ Sputnik Radio. The US military admitted that a US Air Force F-16 fighter jet dropped a fuel tank on the village of Fukaura in northeastern Japan before an emergency landing, Kyodo news agency reports.
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| Fragments of a fuel tank dropped from an American F-16 fighter belonging to the Misawa Air Base are pictured on the morning of December 1, 2021 in Fukaura, Aomori Prefecture. (Kyodo). |
| Source: https://english .kyodonews.net/ |
Earlier, the US military command stated that the F-16 fighter had problems during the flight, and the pilot dropped fuel tanks into a deserted area near Mt.
However, one of the tanks fell 20-30 meters from the municipality building in Fukaura. As a result of the incident, no one was injured.
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| A photo taken on December 1, 2021 from a Kyodo News plane shows the place (circled in red) where a fuel tank dropped by an American F-16 fighter jet a day earlier was found near a residential area in the city of Fukaura in Aomori Prefecture, in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo). |
| Source: https://english .kyodonews.net/ |
Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi demanded to stop F-16 flights in the airspace of the island state during the investigation of the incident.
Earlier, Sputnik radio reported that the equipment of the US fighter that was monitoring the Su-35 in Syria had failed.
