One woman became unresponsive and 14 others were injured after a passenger boat rammed into a navigation aid near Kobe Airport, the Japan Coast Guard said Thursday.
Twenty-nine people were aboard when the accident took place at around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, just before the boat arrived at the airport in Hyogo Prefecture. An 80-year-old woman fell unconscious while 14 other passengers, from teenagers to people in their 60s, sustained a range of injuries.
The 40-year-old captain of the ship and a 22-year-old chief engineer escaped injury. The 84-ton Sora had departed from Kansai International Airport in neighboring Osaka Prefecture at 9 p.m. and was scheduled to reach Kobe Airport 30 minutes later.