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...Ochiai was surprised to see Mount Fuji out a left window. "I thought the plane was heading back to Haneda," she said. Actually, radar operators saw the aircraft make a wide circle at this point, fully 360°, near Japan's sacred mountain, which was far north of the planned course to Osaka...
...minute later, the plane was advised, "Haneda and Yokota both ready. You can start landing procedures any time." Yokota, a U.S. air base, had already been told by Tokyo air-traffic control, as had Haneda, to be prepared for an emergency landing. But there was no reply from Flight...
...ground, Keiichi Yamazaki heard the unusual sound of an airliner above his home in Nippara, a remote mountain village. "All of a sudden, a big air plane appeared from between mountains, just like out of no where," he recalled. "Four times it leaned to the left, and each time it tried to recover its balance to the right. It was flying just like a staggering drunk...
...cabin, Ochiai had strapped herself into her seat. "The plane started dropping at a sharp angle, almost vertically," she recalled. "Soon there were two or three very sharp impacts, and seats and cushions all around me came tumbling down on me. I was covered with seats, and I couldn't move. I suffered a piercing pain in my stomach. Finally, I was able to unfasten my seatbelt, but I found myself trapped between seats, and I could not move...
...drop to below 10,000 ft. and then, at 6:57 p.m., disappear from their radar screens altogether. The 747, still heading north rather than east, had plunged into a slope of 5,400-ft.-high Mount Osutaka, a pine-covered granite peak. Weighing more than 350 tons, the plane buried much of its fuselage in a steeply angled ridge at an altitude of 4,700 ft. Flames spurted into the sky as the impact ignited fuel tanks; even the metal scraps burned fiercely as the 747 sliced through the trees...