Japan Airlines Flight 123

Japan Airlines Flight 123 (JAL 123/JL 123) was a Japanese commercial flight between Haneda International Airport in Tokyo and Osaka International Airport in Itami Hyogo. On August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747SR operating the flight, registered as JA8119, crashed 44 minutes after takeoff atop Mount Takamagahara 100 km (62 mi) from Tokyo, due to decompression. [1] The crash site was later renamed Osutaka O'ne. It remains in history as the world's largest single-aircraft disaster and the second-largest aviation accident of all time, after the 1977 Tenerife crash and excluding the September 11, 2001 attacks (as these were terrorist attacks, not accidents).

Japan Airlines Flight 123

Historic image of the crashed aircraft photographed minutes before the accident. A large part of the vertical stabilizer on the tail is missing.
Event
Plane crash
Date
August 12, 1985
Hour
18:56 (local time)
Cause
Pressure bulkhead failure due to inadequate repair (tail strike suffered in 1978).
Total loss of hydraulic systems, rapid decompression and loss of control.
Place
Summit of Mount Takamagahara, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Coordinates
36°00′05″N 138°41′38″E / 36.001388888889, 138.69388888889
Origin
Tokyo Haneda International Airport, Tokyo, Flag of Japan Japan
Destination
Osaka International Airport, Osaka, Flag of Japan Japan
Deceased
520
Wounded
4
Involved
Guy
Boeing 747-SR46
Operator
Japan Airlines
Record
JA8119
Passengers
509
Crew
15
Survivors
4
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All 15 crew members and 505 of the 509 passengers died (including the famous singer Kyu Sakamoto): a total of 520 dead. The four surviving women were located together in the rear of the plane: Yumi Ochiai (落合 由美 Ochiai Yumi), a 25-year-old off-duty JAL flight attendant, who was trapped

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