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The crash killed all 15 crew members and 505 of the 509 passengers on board, leaving four survivors. An estimated 20 to 50 passengers survived the initial crash but died from their injuries while awaiting rescue. The crash is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history [1] and remains the deadliest aviation incident in Japan. [2]
On 2 October 1991, a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-200B was climbing through FL165 when the force from a hot liquid released from a burst pipe in the pressurization system, and blew a 100 cm × 70 cm (3.3 ft × 2.3 ft) hole in the fuselage beneath the port wing. The captain dumped fuel and returned safely to Tokyo.
The deadliest of this year was Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 which crashed in mountainous terrain in Gunma prefecture, Japan, on 12 August, killing 520 of the 524 people on board; the accident was the deadliest of the 1980s decade, and remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history.
There was heavy fog and the Boeing crashed into a Pan Am 747, leading to the tragedy. Japan Airlines Flight 123, JA8119 ... five people on the ground were killed in the crash. The American ...
520 15 505 0: COM Japan Air Lines Flight 123: Boeing 747SR-46: Mount Takamagahara, Ueno, Japan ENR [15] [16] 1985-08-12 349 33 316 0 † COM Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907: Boeing 747-168B and Ilyushin Il-76TD: Charkhi Dadri, India ENR [17] [18] 1996-11-12 346 11 335 0 ‡, † COM Turkish Airlines Flight ...
The massive Japan Airlines plane collision is the ‘first real test for a modern aircraft’ under distress and Airbus’s new lightweight carbon-fibre fuselege may have protected passengers from ...
The fatal accident saw Japan Airlines flight 516 crash into the coast guard aircraft after touching down on the runway on Tuesday, causing it to erupt into a terrifying fireball.
This accident is similar to Japan Air Lines Flight 123 which killed 520 people. The crash remains the deadliest in Taiwan, as well as the most recent accident with fatalities involving China Airlines, and the second-deadliest accident in China Airlines history, behind China Airlines Flight 140 with 264 fatalities.