On August 12, 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed into Mount Takamagahara, claiming 520 lives - the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. Discover how a preventable failure became a ...

It would be the last time she ever saw her partner. That evening, he boarded Japan Airlines 123, a Boeing 747. At the time, it was the world’s largest and most impressive passenger aircraft and ...

On Aug.12, 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123 took off from Haneda Airport in Tokyo, bound for Osaka International Airport. Onboard were a mix of passengers — businessmen, families returning from ...

Is that right?” Flight 123: “Yes. Affirmative.” Seated in row 56, just four rows from the end of the cabin, Yumi Ochiai, 26, an offduty JAL flight attendant, saw and heard the signs of trouble.

On August 12, 1985, JAL flight 123 from Tokyo to Osaka crashed and killed 520 onboard. The accident was caused by a faulty repair of the tail by Boeing technicians, not the airline’s.

Wednesday is the 30th anniversary of the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history: the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123, which killed 520 passengers and crew. “In what apparently is the ...

Half an hour into its flight, Japan Airlines flight 123 crashed on a ridge near Mount Osutaka. Of the 524 passengers, only four survived. It was the deadliest single accident in the history of ...

A Japan Airlines commercial jet collided with a Coast Guard plane on the runway on Tuesday. Everyone on the Japan Airlines flight survived, but five died on the smaller plane. The last time a JAL ...

JAL set up a Safety Promotion Center at the airport in 2006 to reflect lessons learned from the Aug. 12, 1985, crash of Flight 123 into a mountain north of Tokyo. It was the world’s worst single ...