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The captain's daughter, Yoko Takahama, who was a high-school student at the time of the crash, went on to become a JAL flight attendant. [37] On June 24, 2022, an oxygen mask belonging to Flight 123 was found near the crash site during road repair work. The discovery came nearly a year after engine parts were also found in the same area. [38]
A five-member panel of external safety experts was established by Japan Airlines in 2005, the 20th anniversary of the crash of JAL 123, to brainstorm ideas to prevent future air disasters. Chaired by Kunio Yanagida, a well-known writer specializing in scientific, aviation, and crisis management topics, the panel recommended the creation of the ...
It is about Japan Air Lines Flight 123, and together with its sequel Osutaka: A Chronicle of Loss In the World's Largest Single Plane Crash, are the only English-language books entirely about that accident. [2] The book discusses the accident and its societal aftermath and compares and contrasts the response to JL123 to that of other accidents. [3]
On August 12, 1985, JAL flight 123 from Tokyo to Osaka crashed, killing 520 out of the 524 onboard, after a faulty repair of the tail by Boeing technicians – not the airline’s – following an ...
On 12 August 1985, Flight 123 operated by a Boeing 747SR (the same aircraft aforementioned involved in a tailstrike incident in 1978) bound for Osaka, lost all its hydraulic flight control systems shortly after takeoff from Tokyo International Airport and, after attempting to limp back to Tokyo, crashed into Mount Takamagahara near Gunma ...
A fire engulfed a Japan Airlines plane as it landed on a runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Tuesday, 2 January. Flight number 516 was carrying around 300 passengers from Shin-Chitose airport in ...
Bomb explosion in cargo hold Byford Dolphin accident: 1983 Diving bell: Accident 5/6 Explosive decompression Human error, no fail-safe in the design Air India Flight 182: 1985 Boeing 747-200B: Terrorist bombing 329/329 Explosive decompression Bomb explosion in cargo hold Japan Airlines Flight 123: 1985 Boeing 747SR Accident 520/524 Explosive ...
Bomb disposal personnel from the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force determined that the explosion was caused by an American 500-pound bomb that was likely dropped during a World War II air raid.