| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | Monday 15 May 2017 |
| Time: | 11:47 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft LR-2 (B300 Super King Air 350) |
| Operator: | Japan Ground Self-Defense Force |
| Registration: | 23-057 |
| C/n / msn: | FL-677 |
| First flight: | 2009 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Missing |
| Airplane fate: | Presumed damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | Assabu, Hokkaido Island ( Japan) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Sapporo-Okadama Airport (OKD/RJCO), Japan |
| Hakodate Airport (HKD/RJCH), Japan |
An LR-2 reconnaissance aircraft of Northern Army Aviation Group, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, carrying four persons, was en route to pick up a patient and is feared to have crashed. The accident airplane lost radar contact at 18 NM west of Hakodate Airport at 3000 feet. The LR-2 was called for an ambulance mission because the ambulance helicopters of local government could not fly due to bad weather at Hakodate. The LR-2 is a military variant of Super King Air 350.
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