A FedEx MD-11 freighter with 2 crew on board 'bounced' on landing and burst into flames at Narita International Airport in Japan causing widespread flight disruption

Investigators believe the accident was partly caused by strong winds creating wind-sheer as it attempted to land at Japan’s largest international gateway

The airport's operating company said was the first fatal aircraft accident since the airport opened in 1978

The USA crew members - 54 year-old pilot Kevin Kyle Mosley and 49 year-old co-pilot Anthony Stephen Pino did not survive

The son of early aviation historian Ted Wixted - Tom - has teamed up with filmmaker Damien Lay to try and obtain funds to recommence searching for Smithy's Lockheed Altair after it disappeared on a flight from England to Australia in 1935

Recently images were obtained during filming of a documentary The Last Anzac near Aye Island in the Bay of Bengal that suggest the Altair may be under a layer of mud on the seabed - these images will be sent to Lockheed Martin for analysis before a salvage mission is organised

In 1983 Ted Wixted organised a search but was unable to locate any part of the missing Lockheed Altair despite 2 weeks spent searching with the help of a French Navy frigate

In 1937 a local fisherman found a section of the starboard undercarriage leg and main wheel identified as from the Altair on Aye Island - Sir Charles and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge were trying to break the England to Australia speed record at the time