- Japan Airlines Flight 350
Infobox Airliner accident
name = Japan Airlines Flight 350
Date =February 9 ,1982
Type = Deliberate crash
Site =Tokyo ,Japan
Fatalities = 24
Injuries =
Aircraft Type =McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 [http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/view_details.cgi?date=02091982®=JA8061&airline=Japan+Air+Lines Accident Database: Accident Synopsis 02091982 ] ]
Origin =Fukuoka Airport
Destination =Tokyo International Airport (Haneda)
Operator =Japan Airlines
Tail Number = airreg|JA|8061
Passengers = 166
Crew = 8
Survivors = 150Japan Airlines Flight 350 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61,
aircraft registration airreg|JA|8061, on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Fukuoka,Japan , toTokyo . The airplane crashed9 February 1982 on approach to Tokyo Haneda Airport inTokyo Bay . Flight 350 wasJapan Airlines ' first crash of the 1980s.cite web
title = History of JAL
publisher = "Japan Airlines "
url = http://www.jal.com/en/history/history/age_81-90.html
accessdate = 2006-12-14 ]The cause of the crash was traced to Captain Seiji Katagiri's (片桐 清二"Katagiri Seiji") reversal of the DC-8's inboard engines, engines 2 & 3, in flight, in order to destroy the aircraft. The
First Officer andFlight Engineer worked to restrain him and regain control. Despite their best efforts, the DC-8's descent could not be completely checked, and it touched down in shallow water m to ft|300|precision=-2 short of the runway.Among the 166 passengers and 8 crew, 24 passengers were killed, with no losses among the crew. The captain was later found to be mentally ill, and had suffered from a
psychosomatic illness prior to the incident, which resulted in not guilty by reason of insanity. Following the accident, Katagiri, one of the first people to take a rescue boat, reportedly claimed to rescuers that he was an office worker to avoid detection.cite web
title = Troubled Pilot
publisher = "Time"
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922801,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
accessdate = 2007-04-20 ]See also
*
List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners
*Japan Airlines References
External links
* " [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9803E2DF1F38F937A25751C0A964948260 COCKPIT FIGHT REPORTED ON JET THAT CRASHED IN TOKYO] ," "
The New York Times "
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