Door falls from ASDF helicopter onto island; no injuries reported

Again ? Military equipment in Japan is literally falling apart. Not a good sign for WW3.

Again. Either buy new equipment or properly maintain the stuff do you have. This is beyond a joke.

Again. Air Force of both countries should never be allowed to fly over populated areas. Accidents happen, but I don’t want my child to die this way.

It’s OK.....it didn’t fall off anything that was American....Non-“News”.

The helicopter, which had four crew members aboard at the time, belongs to the ASDF's larger base in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture.

Interesting that the ASDF helicopter is based in Okinawa and that problems are not limited to just U.S. Marine helicopters also based in Okinawa.

One would think that the crew would do a proper preflight inspection that would catch an improperly closed cargo door and secure it or report a malfunctioning door and have ground maintenance repair it before flight.

Does the ASDF and U.S. Marines on the Okinawa bases do their own maintenance or outsource the maintenance? In either case, are they adequately budgeted, staffed, and properly trained? Military aircraft are complicated and there's no excuse for sloppiness or haphazard maintenance. And there's no excuse for a flight crew to do a sloppy preflight check either.

US military helicopters and SDF helicopters droped parts sometimes and would drop something again and again. Both helicopters are made in USA. Because these are craps with low quality. Japan better not buy planes made in USA.

Where are all the posters who purpoted to be so worried about safety if a US pilot landed with no injuries? They are all so quiet suddenly. Surely they must think all SDF helicopters and planes must be grounded, right? Can't just be hatred of the US forces when they say it's about safety! Where's Onaga outrage?

Hearing about all these parts from Military Planes and Helicopters falling everywhere.... it makes me wonder, how many are out there that no one has found yet? What percentage do you think are found and reported? My guess would be just 10% to 20%.

TFOA is defined in Navy manuals as "a naval aviationwide problem in which aircraft parts or stores are unintentionally departing aircraft in flight." The program requires all Navy pilots and aircraft inspection crews to file written reports each time "any 'thing' leaves an aircraft without the intention of the crew," according to Navy manuals. (LA Times http://articles.latimes.com/1986-09-21/local/me-9105_1_navy-jets)

According to this LA Times article, there were 2,300 TFOA incidents reported in 5 years. That's 460 reported incidents per year and that's only by US Navy. How often this thing happens in world wide including non-military air crafts, I wonder.

Interesting that this one fell from an ASDF helicopter and not nearly such a big deal is made, but still the comments of concern that someone is going to be killed by falling parts from aircraft which is such a remote possibility that there can't even be odds placed on this occurring.

A person is a million times more likely to be killed by a house cat attack.

kwattMar. 7  07:17 pm JST

US military helicopters and SDF helicopters droped parts sometimes and would drop something again and again. Both helicopters are made in USA. Because these are craps with low quality. Japan better not buy planes made in USA

Guess what kwatt? The CH-47J is built under license by Kawasaki Heavy Industries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook#CH-47J

What do you say now? Still say it's crap with built with low quality?

You anti-US guys are sure quick to point the blame.