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  1. Japan Air Lines Flight 123: The Faulty Repair Behind 520 Deaths

    Event: 1985Published: 16 Apr 2024

    Fascinating Horror's short documentary on Japan Air Lines Flight 123 starts with the aircraft's tail strike at Osaka in 1978 and ends at the memorial on the mountain.

    View event: Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (1985)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Ridge about 2.5 km north-northwest of Mount Mikuni, Ueno Village, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  2. Japan Air Lines Flight 123: How the Bulkhead Burst Took the Tail

    Event: 1985Published: 13 Apr 2022

    This four-minute Smithsonian Channel clip explains the mechanism of the Japan Air Lines Flight 123 accident in 1985.

    View event: Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (1985)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Ridge about 2.5 km north-northwest of Mount Mikuni, Ueno Village, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  3. Japan Air Lines Flight 123: The Obon Flight and the 1978 Repair

    Event: 1985Published: 24 Oct 2020

    This Disaster Breakdown episode explains Japan Air Lines Flight 123, the Boeing 747 that crashed in the mountains of Gunma Prefecture on 12 August 1985.

    View event: Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (1985)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Ridge about 2.5 km north-northwest of Mount Mikuni, Ueno Village, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
    Phase of flight
    Cruise