Buckalew was the registered owner of the single-engine Socata TBM 700 and had more than 1, 400 hours of flight time, according to the report.

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The crews arrived four days after the 24-foot tsunami had swept the plant, and in the ensuing 10 weeks they logged 507 flight hours crisscrossing the skies over Japan in a Beechcraft C-12 twin engine turboprop out of nearby Yokota Air Base.

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