Overview

• Around 12:05 p.m. on August 31, responders found a wrecked single-seat glider on a sandbar of the Tone River in Kumagaya, Saitama.
• Kumagaya police said the pilot had departed solo from Menuma Glider Field and was flying north before the crash.
• An eyewitness called 119 reporting that a glider had fallen with a person inside.
• Police confirmed the pilot, believed to be in her 20s, was deceased at the scene, and they are working to confirm her identity.
• Authorities are investigating the cause and whether the incident is connected to a Tokyo Six Universities intercollegiate glider event held nearby.