Japan Air Lines Flight 123

A Boeing 747 on a domestic service from Tokyo to Osaka suffered an explosive decompression. The crew kept the aircraft under some measure of control for more than forty-five minutes before it struck Mount Osutaka at high speed.

Date

1985-08-12

Deaths (Wikipedia list)

520

What the pin marks

The crash site on the Osutaka ridge, Gunma, as the cited page positions it.

Where the position is published

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_123

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: aviation, japan, boeing 747, decompression

Coordinates: 36.00139, 138.69389

Part of Airliner accidents that killed 200 or more people since 1970

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