GSDF Set To Resume Apache Attack Helo Flights After Deadly Crash In 2018

October 30 2019

Japan

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) plans to resume AH-64D attack helicopter flights in mid-November, more than 18 months after the fleet was grounded following a crash, reports the Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo). 

The service suspended AH-64D flights in February 2018 after one of the helicopters crashed in a residential area in Kanzaki, Saga prefecture, killing two soldiers and injuring a child on the ground.

Shunji Yoshino, the GSDF commander in Saga, is scheduled to visit...

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