- Date
- November 23, 2025
- Place
- Kitakyushu, Japan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- JA382AGeneral Atomics MQ9
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Dragged wing/rotor/float/other
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 202075
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Dragged wing/rotor/float/otherAll aircraft: 319 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- JA382A
- Reported as
- General Atomics MQ9 (UBC97000-15)
- Category
- Airplane, unmanned
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator
- Japan Coast Guard
- Registered owner
- Japan Coast Guard
- Airport
- RJFR · Kitakyushu Airport