The 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash (Japanese: 宮森小学校米軍機墜落事故), also known as the Miyamori Elementary School crash (宮森小学校米軍機墜落事故), occurred on June 30, 1959, when a North American F-100 Super Sabre of the United States Air Force crashed in Ishikawa, in United States-occupied Okinawa, killing 18 people. == Accident == At 10:40 a.m., a United States Air Force F-100D Super Sabre, piloted by 34-year-old Captain John G. Schmitt Jr.
The 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash (Japanese: 宮森小学校米軍機墜落事故), also known as the Miyamori Elementary School crash (宮森小学校米軍機墜落事故), occurred on June 30, 1959, when a North American F-100 Super Sabre of the United States Air Force crashed in Ishikawa, in United States-occupied Okinawa, killing 18 people. == Accident == At 10:40 a.m., a United States Air Force F-100D Super Sabre, piloted by 34-year-old Captain John G. Schmitt Jr.
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