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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a Japan Airlines domestic flight from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to Osaka International Airport (Itami) on August 12, 1985. The Boeing 747-146SR that made this route, registered JA8119, suffered mechanical failures 12 minutes into the flight and 32 minutes later crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, 100 kilometers from Tokyo. The crash site was on Osutaka Ridge,near Mount Osutaka. All 15 crew members and 505 out of 509 passengers died, resulting in a total of 520 deaths and four survivors.
The flight took off from Runway 16L at Tokyo International Airport (commonly referred to as Haneda Airport) in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan at 6:12 p.m., 12 minutes behind schedule.About 12 minutes after takeoff, as the aircraft reached cruising altitude over Sagami Bay, the rear pressure bulkhead failed. The resulting explosive decompression tore the vertical stabilizer from the aircraft and severed all four of the aircraft's hydraulic systems. A photograph taken from the ground some time later confirmed that the vertical stabilizer was missing. The loss of cabin pressure at high altitude had also caused a lack of oxygen throughout the cabin, and emergency oxygen masks for passengers soon began to fall. Flight attendants, including one who was off-duty and flying as a passenger, administered oxygen to various passengers using hand-held tanks.
The pilots, including Captain Masami Takahama ,Takahama Masami), first officer Yutaka Sasaki, and flight engineer Hiroshi Fukuda set their transponder to broadcast a distress signal to Tokyo Area Control Center, which directed the aircraft to descend and gave it heading vectors for an emergency landing. Continued control problems required them to first request vectors back to Haneda, then to Yokota (a U.S. military air base), then back to Haneda again as the aircraft wandered uncontrollably.
By then all hydraulic fluid had drained away through the rupture. With total loss of hydraulic control and non-functional control surfaces, the aircraft began to oscillate up and down in a Phugoid cycle. The pilots managed a measure of control by using differential engine thrust. These improvisations proved helpful, but further measures to exert control, such as lowering the landing gear and flaps, interfered with control by throttle, and the plane's uncontrollability once again escalated.
After descending to 13,500 feet (4100 m), the pilots reported the aircraft's uncontrollability. The plane flew over the Izu Peninsula, headed for the Pacific Ocean, then turned back towards the shore and descended to below 7,000 feet (2100 m) before the pilots managed to return to a climb. The aircraft reached an altitude of 13,000 feet (4000 m) before entering an uncontrollable descent into the mountains and disappearing from radar at 6:56 p.m. and 6,800 feet (2100 m). The final moments of the plane occurred when it clipped one mountain ridge then hit a second one during another rapid plunge, then flipped and landed on its back. The aircraft's crash point, at an elevation of 1,565 metres (5,135 ft), is located in Sector 76, State Forest, 3577 Aza Hontani, Ouaza Narahara, Ueno Village, Tano District, Gunma Prefecture. The east-west ridge is about 2.5 kilometres (8,200 ft) north north west of Mount Mikuni.Ed Magnuson of Time magazine said that the area where the aircraft crashed was referred to as the "Tibet" of Gunma Prefecture.
Thirty-two minutes elapsed from the time of the bulkhead explosion to the time of the final crash, long enough for some passengers to write farewells to their families.Subsequent simulator re-enactments of the mechanical failures suffered by Flight 123 failed to produce a better solution or outcome, and in fact none of the four flight crews in the simulations were able to keep the plane aloft for as long as the 32 minutes achieved by the actual crew.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011
Rock Back for Japan Vol. 1
01. Purple Bloom- kisses bloomed 02. Apple Orchard- Half steps towards bright skies 03. SPC ECO- Silo Too High 04. Tahaki Miyaki- Somethin is better than nothing 05. Insect Guide- 10 06. Black Swan Lane- Age end 07. Un.Real- Angel 75 08. Spotlight Kid- All is real 09. Tally Ho!- Rainbow 10. Counterfeit i- Atlantis 11. Panophonic- Disappear into the night 12. Spell 336- Silence 13. //orangenoise- Trust 14. The DeFog- A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing 15. Bliss.City.East- Black and Blue
Nov 2. 1982... Dear Tia, So how are you guys doing? Fine I hope? I'm doing pretty good. I'm just a little homesick. Boot camp isn't too bad, but it isn't too good. I hate taking orders from these officers. But I can't do anything about it. I mean they yell at you for nothing. Like the other day I was outside at about 4:00 in the morning with my hands in my jacket pockets and I got yelled at by an officer. Here you are not allowed to have your hands in your pockets. But I was cold. I swear I felt like hitting him or breaking his leg. I don't like to take orders from anyone except my mom. Oh well enough of that. I just can't wait to get out. We might get out on November 26th instead of December 9th but I'm not sure? You see so many people signed up for the navy and there's no place to put them so they are going to let us graduate early to make room for the new recruits. I already went to the dentist and got one tooth filled. Plus I got about 10 shots including a small pox shot which I got today. I look funny without my hair. Big ears and a big forehead. We haven't taken pictures yet but when we do I will send you one. My mom wrote me and said you guys had an earthquake? I hope it wasn't too serious? Say hi to little Paul and Anthony. Tell my Tio that the guys in my company, about 80 of us are pretty scared of me. Because we have a Korean and Filipino in here and they are supposed to know karate or something but I taught them a lesson with some shin kicks and some muscle destruction. I like picking on these guys. They say I have fast hands and feet. This ex-con about 24 years old from prison doesn't like to mess with me because I got him with a backfist and collapsing elbows. I already hurt this guys knee because I kicked him with my boots on. It's fun beating them up. Oh well I better go now. Take care. Love Jesse P.S. Inez wrote to me. If you see her say hi for me!!! A little more info: Jesse was my older cousin.He was very, very close to me, my younger brother Anthony and my parents. The picture of him above was taken the same week that he left for the Navy in the summer of 1982. I never saw my cousin alive again. In 1984 two years after he sent the above letter to me Jesse was killed in an automobile accident while he was on leave from the Navy...
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun – for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax – This won’t hurt.
