All dailies reported yesterday evening or this morning on the disclosure by the Naval Safety Center that a Navy P-8 Poseidon patrol and reconnaissance airplane sustained damage to its fuselage and nose gear after colliding with a piece of traction equipment at Kadena AB on December 18. The center categorized the incident as a “Class A” accident. There were no reports of injuries. Tokyo Shimbun stressed that this was the latest in a succession of serious accidents involving USFJ aircraft in the past several months.