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Japan Air Commuter Lands on One Engine


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What: Japan Air Commuter de Havilland Dash 8-400 en route from Tanegashima to Kagoshima
Where: Kagoshima
When: Mar 25th 2009 10:26 a.m
Who: 42 passengers
Why: When the left hand engine’s oil pressure dropped, the pilot shut down the engine and continued on to Kagoshima. Maintenance crews discovered significant damage in the engine. There were no injuries reported.

This was also reported as a Bombardier Inc. DHC-8-Q400. The Bombardier Dash 8 was formerly known as the de Havilland Canada Dash 8; Bombardier acquired de Havilland Canada (DHC) .

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