![]() ![]() As the single worst aircraft crash in history, 505 people lost their lives. They wanted to fly back to Haneda airport but despite all the heroic efforts to control the plane for an incredible 30 minutes, fate was against them and they crashed into the mountains near Mount Fuji. I’m not sure if the captain and his second and third officers were aware of the incident. All the hydraulic pipes ran through the tail and their breakage caused again, all the hydraulic fluid to leak leading to the subsequent loss of all flight controls.Īgain, the pilots followed the technique of the Sioux City flight. An improper repair of the rear bulkhead caused it to rupture after several cabin pressurization cycles over hundreds of flights and slowly tore the rear tailfin. History repeated itself once again when no one learned lessons from the Sioux City incident. Four years before, in August 1985, Japan Airlines 123, was the subject of the world’s worst single aircraft disaster in aviation.
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