A windshield weighing some 90 kilograms fell off from an F-2 fighter jet of the Air Self-Defense Force when it was flying over the city of Asakura in Fukuoka Prefecture, on Sunday afternoon.
According to the Defense Ministry’s Joint Staff Office, no damage related to the fall of the windshield has been confirmed.
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