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August 12th, 1985.
A Boeing 747 carrying 524 people careens out of control in the skies above Japan. Alarms blare in the cockpit, as the pilots desperately grapple with an aircraft which seems to have a mind of its own. Oxygen masks drop from the ceiling, and terrified passengers write lastminute notes to loved ones. What has caused the massive tail to explode off the aircraft, and will the pilots be able to coax their stricken plane back to the airport? This is the story of Japan Air flight 123.



Special thanks to Gohan Chan for his invaluable help in piecing together this incident using real CVR and FDR data, as well has his excellent 3D modelling. See his full telling of the accident here:    • Japan Airlines Flight 123  XPlane 1...  

Thanks to Lukasz Studniarz for his indepth research for this episode.

This video was created with reference to publicly available sources:
https://www.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/engair_r...