Japan Air Lines Flight 123

When

12 Aug 1985

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

36.00° N, 138.69° E

Description

1985 aviation accident in Japan

Deaths

520

Injured

4

Cause

loss of control

1985 aviation accident in Japan

Japan Air Lines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On the evening of Monday, August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747 flying the route suffered a severe structural failure and explosive decompression 12 minutes after takeoff. After flying under minimal control for 32 minutes, the plane crashed in the area of Mount Takamagahara, 100 kilometres from Tokyo.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people, including Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Tokyo'dan Osaka'ya gitmekte olan 123 sefer sayılı Japan Airlines uçağı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un Boeing 747, le vol 123 Japan Airlines, s’écrase sur une montagne, après avoir voulu retourner à Tokyo à la suite d’un problème de décompression de l’appareil”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Японии самолёт Boeing 747 врезался в гору, погибло 520 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Japón, un Boeing 747 de Japan Airlines que volaba de Tokio a Osaka se estrella en las montañas del centro del archipiélago”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日本航空123號班機，從東京羽田飛往大阪途中，因嚴重機械故障墜毀於群馬縣山區，520人罹難，4人生還。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日本航空123便墜落事故が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page