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4: Survivors: 4: Japan Air Lines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On August 12, 1985, ...
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.
It is about Japan Airlines 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]
The oldest survivor of Flight 212, Mihalek was 46 at the time of the crash and helped pull co-pilot Jim Daniels away from the wreckage. His son Darryl Mihalek calls him “the original 9/11 hero.”
However, according to a National Geographic programme about the accident, says that one of the four survivors was an off-duty flight attendant. Jon Harald Søby 14:09, 23 June 2006 (UTC) Yes she was off duty, and probably did not count as part of the flight crew for that particular flight. Limitedexpresstrain 22:11, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Aug. 31, 1988: Delta pilot Larry Davis, who suffered serious injuries, was the last survivor removed from the wreckage of Delta Flight 1141 after it crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
A massive hole opened up in the side of the plane, minutes into a flight. Wind and noise filled the cabin, clothes and phones were ripped from passengers and hurled into the void. The metal of ...
The crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123 on 12 August 1985 was initially reported on Mount Osutaka, but later confirmed to be on the ridge of Mount Takamagahara at a height of approximately 1,565 metres (5,135 ft) above sea level. With the loss of 520 people, it remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history.