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was a scheduled domestic Japan Airlines passenger flight from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to Osaka International Airport, Japan. On Monday, August 12, 1985, a Boeing 747SR operating this route suffered explosive decompression 12 minutes into the flight and, 32 minutes later, crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, from Tokyo. The crash site was on , near Mount Osutaka. All 15 crew members and 505 of the 509 passengers on board died. The death toll was exacerbated by delays in the rescue operation. The explosive decompression was caused by a faulty repair performed seven years earlier. It is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history, the deadliest aviation accident in Japan,〔"(ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 747SR-46 JA8119 Ueno )." Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved June 15, 2009.〕 the second-deadliest Boeing 747 accident and the second-deadliest aviation accident behind the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster. The fatalities added to August 1985 being commercial aviation's single deadliest month for passenger and crew deaths, part of the single deadliest such year, coming just ten days after the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191 killing 137 people and ten days before a fire on board British Airtours Flight 28M killed a further 55 people. == Aircraft and crew == The accident aircraft was registered JA8119 and was a Boeing 747-146SR (Short Range). Its first flight was on January 28, 1974. It had more than 25,000 airframe hours and more than 18,800 cycles (one cycle equals one takeoff and landing).〔 At the time of the accident the aircraft was on the fifth of its six planned flights of the day.〔Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission. "2. Factual information." Aircraft Accident Investigation Report – Japan Air Lines flight 123 2.1.1 (1987): 6. Print.〕 There were fifteen crew members, including three cockpit crew and 12 flight attendants.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=JAL123便墜落事故28年目の記録 )〕 The cockpit crew consisted of the following: * Captain from Akita, Japan. A veteran pilot, having logged approximately 12,400 total flight hours—roughly 4,850 of which were accumulated flying 747s, Takahama served as a training instructor on the flight, supervising the First Officer while handling the radio communications.〔Magnuson, Ed. "Last Minutes of JAL 123." ''TIME''. (1 ). Retrieved October 25, 2007.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pictures of the three pilots )〕〔 Masami Takahama was aged 49 at the time of the accident. * First Officer from Kobe. Flight 123 was a training flight flown by Sasaki himself in order for him to be promoted to Captain.〔 He was 39 years old. The first officer had approximately 4,000 total flight hours to his credit and he had logged roughly 2,650 hours in the 747. * Flight Engineer from Kyoto.〔 A 46-year-old veteran flight engineer, he had approximately 9,800 total flight hours, of which roughly 3,850 were accrued flying 747s.〔http://www.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/eng-air_report/JA8119.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japan Airlines Flight 123」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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