Plane Crash Recreated
JAL123 / Japan (1x6)
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12 August, 1985 saw the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history. Japan Airlines Flight
123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight carrying 524 people from Tokyo to Osaka. Just 12
minutes into the flight, the Boeing 747 jumbo-jet suffered a fatal decompression that ripped off
most of the tail. With a total loss of hydraulics, the crew were unable to control the aircraft which
tragically crashed into a mountainside. This episode features the account of a widowed partner of
one passenger who perished in the crash, on why the grief from the tragedy still lives on.