Japan Air Lines Flight 350

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Japan Air Lines Flight 350 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61, registered JA8061, on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, to Tokyo in Japan.[1] The airplane crashed 9 February 1982 on approach to Haneda Airport in Tokyo Bay, resulting in 24 fatalities.[2] Flight 350 was the first crash for Japan Air Lines in the 1980s.[3] The investigation traced the cause of the crash to the deliberate actions of the captain.

Background

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 registered as JA8061. It was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas in 1967 and in its 15 years of service, it had logged 36955 airframe hours. It was equipped with four Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B engines.[4]

Crew

The crew consisted of 35-year-old Captain Seiji Katagiri (片桐 清二 Katagiri Seiji), 33-year-old First Officer Yoshifumi Ishikawa, and 48-year-old flight engineer Yoshimi Ozaki.[1] The cause of the crash was traced to Katagiri's deliberate crashing of the plane.

Flight

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Another angle of the aircraft involved

One report states that the captain engaged the inboard engines' thrust-reversers in flight.[5][6] Another report states that, during descent, Katagiri "cancelled autopilot, pushed his controls forward and retarded the throttles to idle."[1] Ishikawa and Ozaki worked to restrain Katagiri and regain control.[7] Despite their efforts, the DC-8's descent could not be fully arrested and it touched down in shallow water 510 meters (1673 feet) short of the runway. During the crash, the cockpit section of the DC-8 separated from the rest of the fuselage and continued to travel for several meters before coming to a halt.[1]

Among the 166 passengers and 8 crew, 24 died. Following the incident, Katagiri, one of the first people to take a rescue boat, told rescuers that he was an office worker to avoid being identified as the captain.[8] Katagiri was later found to have paranoid schizophrenia[9] prior to the incident, which resulted in his being ruled not guilty by reason of insanity.[10] Investigators for the Japanese government attributed the incident to a lack of proper medical examinations which allowed Katagiri to fly.[9][11]

Aftermath

Katagiri has since been released from psychiatric care.[12]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ a b c d Aviation Safety Network, Accident description. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
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  6. ↑ Stokes, Henry Scott. "Cockpit Fight Reported on Jet That Crashed in Tokyo," The New York Times. 14 February 1982. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
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