Credit: Reuters/Toru Hanai
A visitor walks past displays of Takata Corp at a showroom for vehicles in Tokyo November 5, 2014.
The New York Times reported Takata had secretly conducted tests on 50 airbags retrieved from scrap yards after the accident in Alabama, with results showing cracks in steel inflators in two of the air bags.
Citing two former Takata employees, the paper said Takata executives ordered the lab technicians to delete the test data instead of alerting federal safety regulators to the possible danger.
Takata could not immediately be reached for comment.
Takata shares fell as much as 4.7 percent in morning trade in Tokyo, while the benchmark Nikkei average was up 0.7 percent.
(Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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