Police inspect a crashed airplane piloted by British aviator Maurice Kirk at a construction site in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.

Maurice Kirk, 60, was taken to a hospital with minor sprains after his aircraft crashed and hit three vehicles around 1 p.m.

The pilot was on his way to Hiroshima, having flown from London to Sydney in a 2001 air race, and from there traveled through Southeast Asia to the Korean Peninsula, then Russia, before arriving in Japan in early October. He was planning to reach Alaska by late December.

The Japan Times Weekly: Oct. 29, 2005
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