ASDF begins work to salvage C-1 transport plane

ASDF begins work to salvage C-1 transport plane

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The 499-ton salvage ship Shinyo Maru (foreground) begins work July 8 to recover an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) transport plane that crashed in the Sea of Japan off Okinoshima Island, Shimane Prefecture, on June 28. In the background is a destroyer. The C-1 transport plane with a crew of five disappeared from radar after taking off from the ASDF Miho base in Tottori Prefecture for a 90-minute test flight. The body of one crew member was found July 4.

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