Japan Airlines Flight 2

When

22 Nov 1968

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

37.59° N, 122.31° W

Description

aviation accident

Deaths

0

1968 aviation accident in California

Japan Air Lines Flight 2 was a scheduled passenger flight on November 22, 1968. The plane was a six-month-old Douglas DC-8-62 named Shiga (志賀), flying from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Due to heavy fog and other factors, Captain Kohei Asoh crashed the plane near Coyote Point in the shallow waters of San Francisco Bay, two and a half miles short of the runway.

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