Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a Japan Airlines domestic flight from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to Osaka International Airport (Itami). On Monday, 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 (62 mi) from Tokyo. The crash site was on Osutaka Ridge (御巣鷹の尾根, Osutaka-no-One ...

Japan Airlines Flight 351 was hijacked by nine members of the Japanese Communist League- Red Army Faction (a predecessor of the Japanese Red Army) on March 31, 1970 while flying from Tokyo to Fukuoka, in an incident usually referred to in Japanese as the Yodogo Hijacking (よど号ハイジャック事件, Yodogō Haijakku Jiken ?). The hijackers took 129 hostages (122 passengers and seven crew members), later releasing them at Fukuoka Airport and Seoul's Kimpo Airport. They then proceeded ...

Le vol 123 de la compagnie aérienne Japan Airlines (JAL123), était un Boeing 747 SR-46, inscrit comme JA8119, qui s'écrasa dans les environs du mont Osutaka dans la préfecture de Gunma , Japon , à 100 km de Tokyo , le lundi 12 août 1985 . Cet accident est resté dans l'histoire comme le pire incluant un seul appareil, et le deuxième dans toute l'histoire de l'aviation, après la catastrophe de Ténérife . L'ensemble des 15 membres de l'équipage et 505 des 509 passagers périrent ...