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...Takahama, 49, who had flown for JAL since 1966 and was so highly regarded that he had been transferred from international to domestic routes four years ago so that he could help train new pilots. The rest of the crew included a co-pilot, a flight engineer and twelve cabin attendants. There were 509 passengers aboard the 747SR, a short-range version of the jumbo. JAL and All Nippon Airways are the only airlines that fly this model, which is structurally strengthened to absorb the jolts of the frequent takeoffs and landings required by shorter routes. As part...
Seated in row 56, just four rows from the end of the cabin, Yumi Ochiai, 26, an offduty JAL flight attendant, saw and heard the signs of trouble. "There was a sudden baan [a Japanese expression emulating a loud noise]," she--recalled later. "It was overhead in the rear. My ears hurt. Immediately, the inside of the cabin became white. The vent hole at the cabin crew seat opened...
...cabin had lost pressure: the white mist was caused by the rush of the cold outside air into the passenger area. The vent to which Ochiai referred was a modification made in wide-bodies after a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost its cargo door near Paris in 1974 and the difference in pressure between the lower cargo hold and the passenger cabin buckled the floor; this disrupted flight controls and spun the DC-10 into the earth, with the loss of all 346 aboard. The vent was designed to equalize pressure in any similar occurrence...
...once some (nontoxic) smoke started pouring into the cabin, everyone got quiet. As most people do, I underestimated how quickly the smoke would fill the space, from ceiling to floor, like a black curtain unfurling in front of us. In 20 sec., all we could see were the pin lights along the floor. As we stood to evacuate, there was a loud thump. In a crowd of experienced flight attendants, still someone had hit his or her head on an overhead bin. In a new situation, with a minor amount of stress, our brains were performing clumsily. As we filed...
Down a dirt drive near the ocean in Malibu, Calif., through a gate hidden in a fence and past hundreds of pecking chickens, TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell found a small cabin some distance from a large main house hidden in the twilight. By the scuttering glow of a single lantern near the cabin fireplace, Bob Dylan, drawing occasionally on a Kool, talked easily with her on a variety of subjects...