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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ap Correspondent

Two confirmed dead following Japanese training plane crash

Firefighters search the area where a Japan Air Self-Defense Force training plane T-4 crashed, at Lake Iruka in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture - (JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)

Two Japanese air force members died shortly after their training aircraft crashed last week, the air force chief confirmed on Thursday.

The T-4 plane, carrying two crew members, crashed into a reservoir minutes after taking off from Komaki Air Base in central Japan's Aichi prefecture on May 14.

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