In this photo provided by the Lake Ogawara fisheries cooperative, a piece of metal that fell from a U.S. F-16 fighter plane stationed at Misawa Air Base is seen on Feb. 20, 2018, at Lake Ogawara in ...

This image taken from the U.S. Air Force website shows an F-16 fighter jet, the same type that dumped its external fuel tanks into Lake Ogawara. TOHOKU, Aomori -- The local fisheries cooperative here ...

One would think that fuel tanks that are dumped would be automatically sealed so that if the tanks don't break on impact no fuel would escape. Preventing spilage is not that difficult. Then, no rist ...