Police search Mitsubishi Heavy factory over fighter accident

Police search Mitsubishi Heavy factory over fighter accident

NAGOYA, Japan - Police investigators on Nov. 1 check the wreckage of an Air Self-Defense Force fighter jet which crashed and caught fire while taking off at Nagoya airport in Aichi Prefecture the previous day. Police searched a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. factory in the town of Toyoyama earlier in the day in connection with the accident in which two test pilots on board the jet were injured.

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