Date: | August 12, 1985 |
Location: | Mt. Osutaka, near Ueno Village, Japan |
Aircraft: | Boeing B-747-SR46 |
Reg: | JA8119 |
Airline: | Japan Air Lines |
Flight No: | 123 |
Fatalities: | 524 : 520 |
The wreckage of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 that crashed on Mt. Osutaka, Japan. Five-hundred twenty people out of 524 aboard were killed. Improper repairs by Boeing after a tail strike 7 years earlier, led to a rupture of the pressure bulkhead and loss of all controls. |