What the records say
- When
- 27 Sep 1977
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 3.13° N, 101.55° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 34
- Injured
- 45
Japan Air Lines Flight 715
1977 aviation accident
Japan Air Lines Flight 715 was a regular scheduled flight that crashed on approach to Subang Airport in Malaysia on 27 September 1977. The aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, registration JA8051, on a flight from Haneda Airport in Tokyo, to Singapore, with stopovers at Hong Kong, and Subang Airport, Malaysia. Of the 69 passengers and ten crew on board, 34 died, whilst the other 45 survived with injuries.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashed at Subang, Selangor, killing 34 of the 79 people on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “катастрофа DC-8 под Куала-Лумпуром, 34 человека погибли”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日本航空クアラルンプール墜落事故。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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