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Japan Air Lines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747 flying the route suffered a severe structural failure and decompression 12 minutes into the flight.
Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash is a 2011 book written by Christopher P. Hood, a lecturer of Japanese studies at Cardiff University, [1] and published by Routledge.
Although the aircraft was repaired in June and July 1978, it was lost in 1985 in the crash of JAL 123 (The worst single-aircraft air disaster) . [35] On 23 November 1979, a Japan Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 was hijacked shortly after takeoff from Osaka by a male passenger. He used a plastic knife and a bottle opener and demanded to be ...
Mount Osutaka (御巣鷹山, Osutaka-yama) is a mountain in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. It is 1,639 m (5,377 ft) high. [1] Mount Osutaka. The plane crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123 on 12 August 1985 was initially reported on Mount Osutaka, but later confirmed to be on a ridge near Mount Takamagahara. With the loss of 520 people, it ...
Aftershocks of the disaster in Japan rippled through the Hawaiian tourism industry last week as thousands of Japanese tourists canceled travel plans in the wake of their country's overwhelming ...
The triple-punch disaster in Japan -- the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear-reactor crisis -- is creating serious concerns about the nation's food supply. Japan consumes most of the ...
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The event became known in Japan as the Japan Airlines near miss incident above Suruga Bay (日本航空機駿河湾上空ニアミス事故, Nihonkōkūki surugawan jōkū niamisu jiko). The incident was attributed to errors made by air traffic controller (ATC) trainee Hideki Hachitani ( 蜂谷 秀樹 , Hachitani Hideki ) and trainee supervisor ...