On Monday, August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747SR that made this route, registration #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.

It is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history, and the second-deadliest accidental plane crash in history behind the Tenerife airport disaster. The fatalities added to August 1985 being commercial aviation's single deadliest month for passenger plus crew, part of the single deadliest such year in history.

All 15 crew members and 505 out of 509 passengers died, resulting in a total of 520 deaths. Miraculously, 4 passengers survived.

Cockpit Voice Recorder + Flight path

Episode of Air Crash Investigation detailing the event

Photos from the crash scene [WARNING - BRUTAL]

Seriously, beware of the photos. They're pure nightmare fuel. [edit- the photos at the end are newspapers at the time of the event, two of them have farewell letters written by passengers after the plane became crippled.]

Translation of the isho, or farewell letters written by passengers. Extremely sad :(

Translation of a newspaper article detailing the experience of a young girl, thanks to apis_cerana

Album of SFW photos of the crash site today from a man who wrote a book on the incident.

On September 2, 1998 at 22:31 (10:31 PM) Atlantic, Swissair flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic ocean off Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people on the plane (215 passangers and 14 crew)(path of the crash). When the plane slammed into the water it was going about 555 km/h causing it to break into about 2 million pieces - crash animation

• most of the plane.

• cockpit at the bottom of the sea

• large chunk of plane

• 98% of the pieces were found and put back together

There aren’t really many pictures of the wreckage because it was mostly on the sea floor, and there aren’t many pictures of the people because there were no people left - they were obliterated along with the plane. Of the 229 people on the flight, 1 person could be visually identified, the others were identified by dental records, finger prints, and DNA tests.

Some of the items found in the cargo were

• Picasso’s “The Painter”

• $1.5 million (aprox) in diamonds

• Several million dollars in cash and gold

The plane disappeared from radar about 5 minures before crashing, and both voice recorders stopped recording - this is the last audio recording from the flight. It is generally agreed that it was an electrical fire that caused the crash, but how it started is unknown. The Fifth Estatedid an episode about the crash as well.

Random sweater floating in the wreckage

There were 2 monuments put up in the area. There is a large monument in Peggy’s Cove (The Whalesback), and a more private monument in Bayswater where the victims of the crash were burried.

The CBC did a timeline of the investigation and another article about the impact 15 years later, and the TSBC report on the crash.

Edit: added a link

This one crashed for a very simple reason: The pilot flew the plane past its operational limits. Arthur 'Bud' Holland was notorious for showing off in aircraft, often to the point of danger. So much so that he was only allowed to fly with passengers if a squadron commander was with him as well. This was the case for the airshow demonstration of a B-52. Bud tried to avoid a no-fly zone near the airport while already in a very risky maneuver. The plane went too far on it's side, losing most of it's lift and it came crashing down in front of the spectators. All 4 on board perished.

Video of the crash - Video of entire flight

Flight Path + No Fly Zone which Bud tried to avoid

Animation of the stall conditions

The Cmdr realized very early that they were going down, you can see his escape hatch released in this photo

Wiki

Hi I thought this might be a good place to ask about a plane crash that as far as I am aware occurred in 1980 with an aircraft flying out of Dalton airport involving a 1946 Piper Cub J-3. This plane was piloted by Albert Baize Jr. I'm interested because the pilot was a retaliative of mine who died in the crash. Any information would be appreciated.

Link to the only information I could find: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/204667512/