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...weeks ago, a Delta Air Lines wide-bodied Lockheed L-1011 failed to reach the runway while attempting a landing in a thunderstorm at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, dooming 134. The accidents seemed to have little in common; in all but one, however, widebodied airliners were involved. With the JAL crash, the worldwide civil aviation death toll for 1985 passed 1,400, making it the most lethal air travel year in history and raising, once again, fears about safety in the skies...
...weather was humid but not unusual as Flight 123 lifted off runway C-15-L at Haneda and climbed through a light cloud cover. At the controls was Captain Masami 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...
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...
Pilots gave high praise to Captain Takahama for keeping his stricken 747 in the air for at least 32 minutes after the tail damage was sustained over Sagami Bay. "In spite of such terrible conditions, the plane was kept aloft by engine thrust only," said Mitsuo Nakano, JAL's deputy chief of 747 pilots. "That is an incredible performance." A U.S. expert, Captain Homer Mouden of the Flight Safety Foundation in Arlington, Va., agreed. "The crew exhibited great courage and skill in trying to keep it sea flying," he said. But the odds loose," a United Air Lines pilot said...
Japanese officials will never know just how close Japan Air Lines Flight 441 came to disaster on Oct. 31, when Soviet fighters scrambled as it strayed near restricted airspace over Sakhalin Island. Last week airline officials revealed that the JAL 747, carrying 132 people, took off at 12:14 p.m. from Narita Airport outside Tokyo and headed for Paris by way of Moscow. Shortly before 1 p.m., Captain Morihiko Nishioka, 39, spotted dense clouds ahead. Anticipating turbulence, he switched off the automatic inertial navigational system to guide the jet manually around the mass. Nishioka claims that he then forgot...