It is said that many pilots tried to recreate this situation on a flight simulator, but every one of them were unable to carry out the maneuvers the pilots did on the original plane. Both the captains received posthumous awards for their sheer determination and will. May all the 520 innocent souls rest in peace for eternity, and never be forgotten.
Captain Takahama's daughter, who lost her father during this tragedy, was a high-school student at the time of the crash. Despite the horrific outcome, she still decided to become a JAL flight attendant for Japan Airlines. Such love to follow in her dad's footsteps by working the same airline as he served in & heroically tried to save his passengers.
Because of a helicopter pilot the survivors had to endure 14 hours of pain and hearing others calling for help until they died. Unimaginable the scale of suffering.😢
@@chris7933 yes...but where could it land? I heard the part about not getting along with other countries, or differing groups. I was shocked the foot climbers camped overnight, to continue their climb in the morning! They must have been very worn out.
What kind of rescue team "stops overnight" because they "do not expect survivors"?!? That is shocking for any kind of rescue team to even think that. You rush to a scene 100% of the time even if there is only a 0.00000000001% chance for a single survivor.
Exactly. What if there were survivors but they died when they all went home?? Obviously I get that people can’t just stay out and search forever, but there should always at least be someone who’s looking!
@@alicej8068 wait you mean you dont read the comment section before watching videos?!? How....normal of you! I always read and then post my opinions on them before watching!
@@thomasjones4570 No, no, I always read and watch at the same time. I’m just saying that if you’re going to open up a comment section designed for people to discuss the video they’re watching/watched, you can’t be surprised if it gets spoiled. Doesn’t make sense.
Mad respect to the pilots. Despite the aircraft being doomed, they fought to keep it airbourne not only for 30 minutes but also until they very end, they gave it their all.
@InspektoraDeFrutas I think the point being that they did an incredible job despite the circumstances and having almost no control. In simulations after the crash no other pilots were about to keep the aircraft in flight for as long under the same conditions
Because of what they did there were tons of initial survivors in a situation where you'd expect no survivors. If the rescue crew went immediately to save people this would have been still a tradegy, but a bit less
@@julienielsen4462 you clearly didnt watch the part in the video when the off duty flight attendant literally said there were many survivors waiting to be rescued.
@@peterjones4621 It happens all over the world even in modern time, unfortunately. Simply politics. Country that accepts outside help deemed incompetent of taking care for their own people, weak.
And they also stopped going because it was dark and stayed the night "not expecting survivors"...that is not what an emergency anything should be doing.
This was a very well researched report of what happened during that terrible hour. It’s dreadful that some people survived the crash but died during the night before rescuers got to them.
@@peterjones4621 And it's really not hard to imagine why he made that call in 1985. He probably remembered well what happened in WW1 when the Japanese fought and funded the war for the allied colonizer countries and what happened at the Treaty of Versailles. Italy made that mistake as well lol
disgusting that rescue wasn't immediate. I would always hope that brave souls would be ready to work tirelessly around the clock for the chance to save even a single life in these tragedies. I cant image how the American marines felt sitting above the wreckage ready to try and help but told to return to base. Tragic and avoidable.
@@chippyjohn1You mean one faulty repair? Also, Boeing acknowledge their fault in the situation whereas JAL never admitted fault for their subsequent lazy inspection of the repair, resulting in the suicide of two of their staff who took responsibility through their deaths. They also bare ultimate responsibility as the operator of the aircraft and never took responsibility beyond paying approx. 13,000 USD per death. JAL even tried to blame the pilots. Meanwhile, Boeing paid more than JAL and reached an amicable settlement with the families involved. They also supposedly replaced the 747. Boeing wasn't cutting corners; their technicians made a mistake and it was clear in the report. The splice works, if the repair was actually completed correctly. One faulty repair should never down an aircraft with the level of redundancy in the industry, unless your maintenance procedures and inspections aren't thorough. Especially when the faulty repair lasted 7 years, waiting to be inspected. But mistakes like those can happen. The botched rescue? Inexcusable. There is no possible reason for Tokyo MP to wave off American support here. Absolutely no excuse.
@@chippyjohn1 Criticizing the company means little as this was the choice of the maintenance engineers that did the repair, they choose to cut corners and time, if anything, criticize capitalism because of its incentivisation of money over life. But the administration of the rescue teams made their decision to wait, and they paid for it with blood and guilt.
An average roller coaster ride is around 3 minutes, and it feels like forever. I can't imagine 30 minutes of that. I would rather lose consciousness with hypoxia.
The fact they managed to fly it for 30 minutes with basically no tail is absolutely insane. I couldn’t imagine all your fears becoming true as you sit helpless in a plane as it’s falling from the sky knowing the odds of surviving are almost non existent. The terror the thoughts those last moments must have been truely horrible
I have seen many episodes of Mayday and frankly this is one of the most saddening and terrible stories. Full credits to the crew for performing their duty till the very end.
Im mot an expert but i feel like if they would have cut the engines and glided into the water for an emergency landing their might have been more survivors. But hey i dont know.
The Japanese government and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces had to be held accountable for the death toll. *They did not cause the accident, but the decision to prevent the first rescue attempt by the US military was beyond criminal.*
Yeah cause clearly the American airbase personnel didn't care that it wasn't American lives - they were willing to go and help right away. Found the site and were prepared to go rappel down and search for survivors but were told to return to base. -Disgusting. Sad that they were found quickly and still died due to total incompetence of the rescue crews. Why the f*** would you stop overnight even if you didn't expect survivors - there is always a chance.
These pilots were two of the most amazing pilots in the world to this day. Even though to flight didn't make it, the never gave up and used every scrap of knowledge and skill they could muster to keep it aloft as best they could under conditions no pilots ever faced before. Much repect for what they did, much honor for never giving up.
Every time I walk up to that 20,000 ton tin can, I freak out just a little. The mere fact that such a craft makes it off the ground and maintains height carrying hundreds, is incredible, and freaky. The fact that if something happens up there, you are pretty much powerless, is an awful thought.
isn’t it amazing!! I work for an airline and the science of flying has been explained to me many times… but I honestly can’t tell you how amazed I still am watching them take off and land.
@CaseyBerard-qv6bi Statistically you're safer in a plane than a car but with a car accident the odds of survival are much higher. Plus we're more in control with a car compared to a plane where we have no control.
I don't understand cutting corners when it comes to repairs and maintenance of any and all aircrafts, every aircraft should be treated as if it was Air Force One
I recall reading a report about this repair and it was actually a miscalculation on the part of the technicians , and nothing to do with cutting corners.Something about they actually used the correct number of rivets but the overlap of the repair was incorrect and they only penetrated one part of the patch rather than the whole ,which had the same result as only using one row of rivets.
So many mistakes and too many lives lost. Starting with maintenance of the plane,but also the people in the helicopter just assuming that there were no survivors. And then the next rescue team camping overnight so close to the accident,while people were dying! Just heartbreaking!!!
That poor flight crew had no idea, they fought to save their plane right up until the end but it just was never going to be enough. May they all rest in peace. The Passengers joined and flight crew and flight attendants joined their ancestors that day.
The captain of Flight 123's own daughter decided to later join the JAL despite the death of her father and honor his legacy by trying to serve as a flight attendant
@@daviddavis3389 If they ditch the plane in the ocean the chances of the landing going wrong is about 90% due to the waves and swells. That is why the landing in the Hudson River with nobody dying was a miracle. In their case they didn’t have enough control to get to the ocean.
Sorry even thought ppl tell me still it's the safest way to travel after watching many crashes here I just refuse to fly ever again! As a younger Woman I flew out of Los Angeles's many times!
@@nancycrockett4276I flew a couple weeks ago and the turbulence had me praying we'd make it home. I was always nervous while flying, but it's even scarier now that I have my son and wife with me.
Oh my oh Lord. This is the worst plane crash story ever - that there are passengers alive. Waiting to be rescued after 30 terrifying minutes up and down. And the music is so dramatic. Afraid to take my blood pressure. This is an amazingly filmed story. Wow!
The fact that they did not allow the US and Boeing officials at the crash site is just a matter of pride. The lives that could have been saved had their pride not gotten in the way. My heart breaks for these families and loved ones. How sad that the Marines could have repelled down and saved more people, and were told to return to base. All because they had a political motivation.
Yeah remember japanese titanic survivor that chose suic*de when coming back alive to japan? Just bcs people said he shouldve given up the space to other people and sink with the ship. I couldnt understand their definition of pride. Korea had same problem with shawol ferry
@LemonHead-sq5ws in wars they just get nuked then surrender...historically they are cowards who only attack smaller countries like China during ww1 and 2...learn your history please
imagine being the ceo and realizing if you didn't cut that one corner none of this would have ever happened!! Maintenance issues but greed issues human error.
Tha individual who sang the song Sukiyaki, Kyu Sakamoto was on that flight. 😢 Imagine 30 minutes of terror. Those pilots definitely gave their all to try and save a doomed plane.
@@nyosito it was the only Japanese song that reached number one on the Billboard chart in 1963 and it reigned for 57 years until BTS took over in 2020
Nope the crash in Tenerife killed 583, the Japan Airlines crash killed 520. Americans offered to save as many passengers as possible but the Japanese people in charge denied their help. Because of this many died from exposure and injuries that didn't need to die. It's absolutely disgusting that these stopped Americans from saving so many lives, just disgraceful.
Talk about disgraceful. The JAL crash was due to a botched repair, whereas, in Tenerife, the KLM pilot initiated his takeoff roll without clearance - deliberate action of jumping into the unknown without a safety net - which is basically Russian roulette. Hats off to the copilot for speaking up, if only once, the first time the captain's itchy trigger finger got the better of him, and what a bummer for the Boeing employee who physically installed that single row of rivets on the seam.
This was the BEST episode ever of this program. This one really got to me. I cried when I saw the elderly couple hold hands because they knew they were going down. I can only imagine what the real passengers must have been thinking. I also cried when I saw that the off duty flight attendant had survived. This was better than any movie. May all those passengers rest in peace.
The efforts after the crash are shocking. If those US Marines had been allowed to land so shortly after the plane went down, far more would have survived.
It's incredibly saddening that issues like heirarchy and jurastiction caused more casualties in this accident. As far as I know, it is still not known or publisiced who ordered the site investigation to be cancelled. This person sure has some hand in the casualty numbers as well. And on a seperate note, I appreciate the show's effort to acutally hire Japanese people to fill the roles in this episode. So many other shows just hire generic people who fit the general look and it is obvious they are not from the country they are trying to portray. Props for the added realism.
speculation got the better of the resucers and the few people left alive in the wreckage eventually succumbed to their injuries and died. such a senseless loss of life for the few remaining survivors because the authorities refused outside help. mind boggling.
Through MOUNTAINS at night? Lucky they found anyone alive. Remember the 5 months it took to find Julian Sands? also, THE Boeing repair team messed up royally, and if they had done repairs correctly then those people would likely never crashed. So sad😢😢😢😢RIP TO ALL THAY DIED🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@triacatz7139Yeah they would have saved few more people would they have gone there sooner, the American military was prevented to help by authorities, because pride.
@@triacatz7139let's not forget that the American's were right there to help, but the Japanese refused. The negligence of the technician who repaired the bulkhead brought the plane down. But probably more people could have surived if it wasn't for Japan's pride. Imagine suriviving the crash heavily wounded and then waiting for hours and nobody comes to rescue. That's really terrible
So sorry for the people and families involved. It’s so tragic. My dad flew small planes and he used to have to help me understand how planes work. I still can’t believe these machines get us from one place to another. It still makes it hard to fly.
At some point, yes. And I think we are at that point. Time for people to be held accountable. Boeing employees say that those training employees how to build planes are an outside firm of people who have never built a plane. A lot more Boeing planes are going to come down in the coming decade.
Everytime I fly I always ask God to let me see my kids for one last time. I used to love flying and have flown on long haul. But every time I get on a flight I am full of fear. God bless all the people who died. The terror they must have felt it's awful to think about.
It is both amazing and terrifying how quickly a chain reaction can be triggered by the smallest detail. And then they're just powerless up there. I find it appalling that nobody thought it important enough to get to crash site as soon as possible to check for survivors. These poor people had to endure 30 minutes of absolute terror in the air, and then lay there cold and scared for hours while dying a slow and agonizing death. Nobody deserves that level of suffering.
4:39 I saw this visual. I saw Mt. Osutaka labeled. I said "Wait what is that mountain they've labeled, I've never heard of that." I immediately googled it and it spoiled it for me, because apparently, the only notable thing that Wikipedia has to say about this mountain is that "The plane crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 was initially reported on Mount Osutaka, but later confirmed to be on a ridge near Mount Takamagahara. It was the deadliest single-plane accident in world history."
I always think that the worst part about being on a plane is that I can't see the pilots. Feels like I'm riding on something with no operator! Don't like trains for the same reason, I can't see who's operating it!
Millions of people fly every day! Plane crashes are the most rare types of crashes in technology. You’re more likely to die in a car crash. Do you stay away from cars and ANY land road traffic also?
@@bobbyromanczuk I believe my God and the sound mind that He gave me. Including testing and analyzing the statistics and their sources! How many victims of plane crashes do you know personally? And how many victims of car crashes? End of story, Case closed! Anyways, it’s useless to argue with unreasonable and irrationally fearful people. Goodbye and have a good life! Be blessed and shalom 👋👋
Hypoxia is so scary bc it happens so fast... its absolutely insane to me to think that The Captain and the crew knew to put on the masks but then never did just making it worse omg wow
Pilots did not put on oxygen right away. Captain zoned out. Too much atc talk, the japan rescue services fought w each other while live survivors died. Trying to get people to medical help the tv cameras and staff interference made it harder. This is disgusting at best. My prayers for people waiting 14 hours not getting help.
I met a guy who survived the Delta crash in Dallas in 1985. He told me a million things go through your head at the same time, esp if you know you're gonna crash and the crew cannot do a thing to stop it. Oh, and he got rich off of it.
Even though the pilot’s did all they could to keep the plane flying the crash was inevitable💥, but it’s still a miracle that 4 passengers survived❤️, but others could’ve survive, but no the authorities had waited 14 hours for some unknown reason💔. May the soul’s Rest in peace🌸.
I have seen several documentaries on this crash. All of them say if the authorities had went ahead and sent out rescue, many more people would have survived. Most of them died waiting for help. 😢
I know plane crashes (to this degree at least...) are rare and getting more rare as technology and plane science grows (hope for the day they can find a way to put parachutes on these planes for everyone...), not to mention its only these that make the news so that should say enough of how rare they are, but damn do I just have anxiety getting on a plane because you never know when you might be that next plane. So many factors and all you can do is be a bystander and hope the pilots know what they're doing, that the plane is up to date and maintained, that no freak accident occurs...
@@MeemingStar Of course not, this is the chapter i watch most time during the first Seasons of Mayday, so is good to see it re uploaded with Time Stamps to see every step fo the accident.
@@CosmicRPGSame. I watched these episodes ages ago and just recently discovered the channel on CZcams. It’s nostalgic and nice to see it organized whereas, before, I was just constantly hitting fast forward and replay trying to find a specific part.
I have been asking this question, why dont aircraft have camers outside to see above and beneath so as for pilots to see whats going on around their planes.
I have watched hundreds of air disaster episodes,but this has been the most upsetting episode ever,just because of the incompetence of the rescue teams...SMFH
If i survived and saw all those bodies at night i would probably have been traumatized for life and earned alot of mental illnesses that is complete horror that i wouldn’t wish uppon my worst enemies
Whoever that was in charge of leading the rescue team and the one in charge of fixing the tail 7 years earlier are the one who should be held accountable. Human error is no excuse for such negligence. RIP 520 innocent souls. Kudo's to the pilot and his crew.
It is said that many pilots tried to recreate this situation on a flight simulator, but every one of them were unable to carry out the maneuvers the pilots did on the original plane. Both the captains received posthumous awards for their sheer determination and will. May all the 520 innocent souls rest in peace for eternity, and never be forgotten.
Only one pilot has ever safely landed a airliner without controls.
@@mercdragonsthat guys an absolute legend
@@mercdragons
He has controls or it would have landed.
😂 or maybe it didn’t happen the way the investigators say it did.
They lost their tail. They used their engines to get as far as they did. Super flying by super pilots. ✈️🛩️💺
Captain Takahama's daughter, who lost her father during this tragedy, was a high-school student at the time of the crash. Despite the horrific outcome, she still decided to become a JAL flight attendant for Japan Airlines. Such love to follow in her dad's footsteps by working the same airline as he served in & heroically tried to save his passengers.
thanks or the information, stories like this make the video more interesting.
Because of a helicopter pilot the survivors had to endure 14 hours of pain and hearing others calling for help until they died. Unimaginable the scale of suffering.😢
@@chris7933 yes...but where could it land? I heard the part about not getting along with other countries, or differing groups. I was shocked the foot climbers camped overnight, to continue their climb in the morning! They must have been very worn out.
@@chris7933 ReallyP The captain was ordered to return to base.
@@trainman1209 "worn out" or simply too lax in assuming they were all dead. No miracle thinking in those recue workers.
What kind of rescue team "stops overnight" because they "do not expect survivors"?!? That is shocking for any kind of rescue team to even think that. You rush to a scene 100% of the time even if there is only a 0.00000000001% chance for a single survivor.
Exactly. What if there were survivors but they died when they all went home?? Obviously I get that people can’t just stay out and search forever, but there should always at least be someone who’s looking!
Uh spoiler alert?
@@MPSO117 why tf would you look at the comment section then?
@@alicej8068 wait you mean you dont read the comment section before watching videos?!? How....normal of you!
I always read and then post my opinions on them before watching!
@@thomasjones4570 No, no, I always read and watch at the same time. I’m just saying that if you’re going to open up a comment section designed for people to discuss the video they’re watching/watched, you can’t be surprised if it gets spoiled. Doesn’t make sense.
Mad respect to the pilots. Despite the aircraft being doomed, they fought to keep it airbourne not only for 30 minutes but also until they very end, they gave it their all.
@@TheZProtocol this had my heart on my full throttle the entire time yet i couldn’t stop watching
@InspektoraDeFrutas I think the point being that they did an incredible job despite the circumstances and having almost no control. In simulations after the crash no other pilots were about to keep the aircraft in flight for as long under the same conditions
Because of what they did there were tons of initial survivors in a situation where you'd expect no survivors. If the rescue crew went immediately to save people this would have been still a tradegy, but a bit less
Imagine how many other people would have survived had they checked for survivors ASAP
Probably none.
I don't think so seemed like a giant fireball.
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@@julienielsen4462 you clearly didnt watch the part in the video when the off duty flight attendant literally said there were many survivors waiting to be rescued.
Yes thats what they said
Those 30 minutes must have felt like an eternity. Such a tragedy
even worse delaying a rescue was a national tragedy of extreme negligence
I remember it so well
it was about as bad as it can get ....
If "department rivalry" is enough to delay a first responder rescue then you are not any kind of hero, you're a glory chaser.
The Japanese didn't want help from the Americans, just disgraceful.
@@peterjones4621 It happens all over the world even in modern time, unfortunately. Simply politics. Country that accepts outside help deemed incompetent of taking care for their own people, weak.
And they also stopped going because it was dark and stayed the night "not expecting survivors"...that is not what an emergency anything should be doing.
This was a very well researched report of what happened during that terrible hour. It’s dreadful that some people survived the crash but died during the night before rescuers got to them.
The Japanese didn't want help from the Americans, just disgraceful.
@@peterjones4621I thought as long as it's an American made plane the ntsb has to be involved but idk
The delay in getting to the crash site disturbs me
The Japanese didn't want help from the Americans, just disgraceful.
Affirmative.
@@peterjones4621 And it's really not hard to imagine why he made that call in 1985. He probably remembered well what happened in WW1 when the Japanese fought and funded the war for the allied colonizer countries and what happened at the Treaty of Versailles.
Italy made that mistake as well lol
@@SkyandMoon909 I’m sure the the every possible effort was made by Japan to get to the site in the least amount of time.
@@bobl1090 didn’t you watch the documentary? 😂💀
disgusting that rescue wasn't immediate. I would always hope that brave souls would be ready to work tirelessly around the clock for the chance to save even a single life in these tragedies. I cant image how the American marines felt sitting above the wreckage ready to try and help but told to return to base. Tragic and avoidable.
You criticise the delay in rescue, yet no criticism to US company Boeing and its faulty repairs.
@@chippyjohn1You mean one faulty repair? Also, Boeing acknowledge their fault in the situation whereas JAL never admitted fault for their subsequent lazy inspection of the repair, resulting in the suicide of two of their staff who took responsibility through their deaths. They also bare ultimate responsibility as the operator of the aircraft and never took responsibility beyond paying approx. 13,000 USD per death. JAL even tried to blame the pilots.
Meanwhile, Boeing paid more than JAL and reached an amicable settlement with the families involved. They also supposedly replaced the 747. Boeing wasn't cutting corners; their technicians made a mistake and it was clear in the report. The splice works, if the repair was actually completed correctly.
One faulty repair should never down an aircraft with the level of redundancy in the industry, unless your maintenance procedures and inspections aren't thorough. Especially when the faulty repair lasted 7 years, waiting to be inspected. But mistakes like those can happen. The botched rescue? Inexcusable. There is no possible reason for Tokyo MP to wave off American support here. Absolutely no excuse.
Horrible that they were wondered back to base.
@@chippyjohn1 Criticizing the company means little as this was the choice of the maintenance engineers that did the repair, they choose to cut corners and time, if anything, criticize capitalism because of its incentivisation of money over life.
But the administration of the rescue teams made their decision to wait, and they paid for it with blood and guilt.
The Japanese didn't want help from the Americans, just disgraceful.
An average roller coaster ride is around 3 minutes, and it feels like forever. I can't imagine 30 minutes of that. I would rather lose consciousness with hypoxia.
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@Crystal-rk9yg what do find so funny 🤬
The fact they managed to fly it for 30 minutes with basically no tail is absolutely insane. I couldn’t imagine all your fears becoming true as you sit helpless in a plane as it’s falling from the sky knowing the odds of surviving are almost non existent. The terror the thoughts those last moments must have been truely horrible
I have seen many episodes of Mayday and frankly this is one of the most saddening and terrible stories. Full credits to the crew for performing their duty till the very end.
I can’t imagine how hard this must have been for those pilots, R.I.P. TO ALL
I would rather run out of oxygen and pass out / die than to be lucid when we hit the ground.
Me to
Exactly what I was thinking! 😭
Can’t believe only 4 passengers out of 529 survived that’s truly unbelievable 😢
Given the circumstances of the crash, what's unbelieveable is that ANYONE survivied
More did survive, but the 'rescuers' waited 14 hours to get to them.
This might be a wake up call for 1st responders!?
Many died because of the rescuers' incompetence, that's unacceptable.
Im mot an expert but i feel like if they would have cut the engines and glided into the water for an emergency landing their might have been more survivors. But hey i dont know.
No mention of the idiotic lack of response from rescue... Many more lives were lost due to arrogance and laziness.
The Japanese didn't want help from the Americans, just disgraceful.
And lives were the cost of their ignorance and incompetence truly sickening and infuriating
The Japanese government and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces had to be held accountable for the death toll.
*They did not cause the accident, but the decision to prevent the first rescue attempt by the US military was beyond criminal.*
Pride goes before the fall
They refused help and took half a day to even arrive its almost like it was planned
This situation was handled so incredibly poorly. they should’ve let the American airbase help immediately
Yeah cause clearly the American airbase personnel didn't care that it wasn't American lives - they were willing to go and help right away. Found the site and were prepared to go rappel down and search for survivors but were told to return to base. -Disgusting. Sad that they were found quickly and still died due to total incompetence of the rescue crews. Why the f*** would you stop overnight even if you didn't expect survivors - there is always a chance.
These pilots were two of the most amazing pilots in the world to this day. Even though to flight didn't make it, the never gave up and used every scrap of knowledge and skill they could muster to keep it aloft as best they could under conditions no pilots ever faced before. Much repect for what they did, much honor for never giving up.
Now piolets are trained to basically be passengers. It's shameful! These piolets are most definitely heroes imo.
Every time I walk up to that 20,000 ton tin can, I freak out just a little. The mere fact that such a craft makes it off the ground and maintains height carrying hundreds, is incredible, and freaky. The fact that if something happens up there, you are pretty much powerless, is an awful thought.
isn’t it amazing!! I work for an airline and the science of flying has been explained to me many times… but I honestly can’t tell you how amazed I still am watching them take off and land.
I’ll stick with my car and trains
@CaseyBerard-qv6bi Statistically you're safer in a plane than a car but with a car accident the odds of survival are much higher. Plus we're more in control with a car compared to a plane where we have no control.
I don't understand cutting corners when it comes to repairs and maintenance of any and all aircrafts, every aircraft should be treated as if it was Air Force One
@@ronaldpires3058 I agree 💯
I recall reading a report about this repair and it was actually a miscalculation on the part of the technicians , and nothing to do with cutting corners.Something about they actually used the correct number of rivets but the overlap of the repair was incorrect and they only penetrated one part of the patch rather than the whole ,which had the same result as only using one row of rivets.
Man ONE SINGLE mistake of maintenance 7 years prior caused this?! R.I.P🕊
Definitely wasnt a small mistake, no excuses for that kind of oversight.
@@09hicktown Yes you are right.
Boeing said it was cheaper, they saved money on rivets. US capitalism for the win.
@@chippyjohn1 True.
@@chippyjohn1 That's not true, but hey who cares huh?
So many mistakes and too many lives lost. Starting with maintenance of the plane,but also the people in the helicopter just assuming that there were no survivors. And then the next rescue team camping overnight so close to the accident,while people were dying! Just heartbreaking!!!
That poor flight crew had no idea, they fought to save their plane right up until the end but it just was never going to be enough. May they all rest in peace. The Passengers joined and flight crew and flight attendants joined their ancestors that day.
The pilots fought an impossible fight with tenacity, vigor, and honor.
The captain of Flight 123's own daughter decided to later join the JAL despite the death of her father and honor his legacy by trying to serve as a flight attendant
Not Funny!
@@robertsteinbach7325couldn't they Just land the plane on the ocean/ditch the plane?
@@daviddavis3389 If they ditch the plane in the ocean the chances of the landing going wrong is about 90% due to the waves and swells. That is why the landing in the Hudson River with nobody dying was a miracle. In their case they didn’t have enough control to get to the ocean.
a shoddy repair job on an overused plane makes this less of an accident and more like a case of greedy sabotage in my opinion
Those poor people…I can’t even imagine the terror
Sorry even thought ppl tell me still it's the safest way to travel after watching many crashes here I just refuse to fly ever again! As a younger Woman I flew out of Los Angeles's many times!
@@nancycrockett4276I flew a couple weeks ago and the turbulence had me praying we'd make it home. I was always nervous while flying, but it's even scarier now that I have my son and wife with me.
Oh my oh Lord. This is the worst plane crash story ever - that there are passengers alive. Waiting to be rescued after 30 terrifying minutes up and down. And the music is so dramatic. Afraid to take my blood pressure. This is an amazingly filmed story. Wow!
So unacceptable that they gave up on the passengers, imagine how many survivors could of been saved
Chillllllssss when they mentioned the mother and daughter that survived
what min?
@@eastbow6053 29:35
@@eastbow6053 Around the 29 minute mark.
So messed up, just because they thought there would be no survivors they took their sweet ass time. Ugh
Never a good thing to watch 😢but it’s educational
The fact that they did not allow the US and Boeing officials at the crash site is just a matter of pride. The lives that could have been saved had their pride not gotten in the way. My heart breaks for these families and loved ones. How sad that the Marines could have repelled down and saved more people, and were told to return to base. All because they had a political motivation.
Yeah remember japanese titanic survivor that chose suic*de when coming back alive to japan? Just bcs people said he shouldve given up the space to other people and sink with the ship. I couldnt understand their definition of pride. Korea had same problem with shawol ferry
The passengers surving the crash but not the overnight on the mountain 😢how horrible to see/hear a chopper leaving them, the boy calling mom
The Japanese didn't want help from the Americans, just disgraceful.
It's disgusting that the people weren't saved immediately when they could've, just because of some pride and political bs.
And. No one was held accountable nor punished
That's horrible. The Japanese people are wonderful caring and kind. Im so sorry for this massive loss.
Many would have been alive if rescuers cared enough - that’s not kindness
Not that kind if they didn't rush there to try to save any
Yeah but in war they are fierce 😅
@LemonHead-sq5ws in wars they just get nuked then surrender...historically they are cowards who only attack smaller countries like China during ww1 and 2...learn your history please
imagine being the ceo and realizing if you didn't cut that one corner none of this would have ever happened!! Maintenance issues but greed issues human error.
Tha individual who sang the song Sukiyaki, Kyu Sakamoto was on that flight. 😢 Imagine 30 minutes of terror. Those pilots definitely gave their all to try and save a doomed plane.
The lyrics ironically translate to "I look up when I walk"
@@nyosito it was the only Japanese song that reached number one on the Billboard chart in 1963 and it reigned for 57 years until BTS took over in 2020
Nope the crash in Tenerife killed 583, the Japan Airlines crash killed 520. Americans offered to save as many passengers as possible but the Japanese people in charge denied their help. Because of this many died from exposure and injuries that didn't need to die. It's absolutely disgusting that these stopped Americans from saving so many lives, just disgraceful.
Pride is a deadly sin.
JAL 123 was the worst *SINGLE PLANE CRASH* ! Tenerife was TWO aircraft ! ! !
Thank you for your factual information
Talk about disgraceful. The JAL crash was due to a botched repair, whereas, in Tenerife, the KLM pilot initiated his takeoff roll without clearance - deliberate action of jumping into the unknown without a safety net - which is basically Russian roulette. Hats off to the copilot for speaking up, if only once, the first time the captain's itchy trigger finger got the better of him, and what a bummer for the Boeing employee who physically installed that single row of rivets on the seam.
The Americans should have ignored the Japanese and gone to help.
This was the BEST episode ever of this program. This one really got to me. I cried when I saw the elderly couple hold hands because they knew they were going down. I can only imagine what the real passengers must have been thinking. I also cried when I saw that the off duty flight attendant had survived. This was better than any movie. May all those passengers rest in peace.
Have you watche the one about Avianca Flight 052? That's my favourite. It is unreal 🙈
-Plane’s in a nose dive.
Flight attendant: “There is no need for alarm.”
Panic (which is objectively impossible to contain ) is to not make panic for the pilots and or create chaos at all cost
Stay home folks
Most people die at home 😅
@@anna-marianunezvega1520 in a comfy warm bed
Flight 182 went right into a suburb. No where is safe.
The efforts after the crash are shocking. If those US Marines had been allowed to land so shortly after the plane went down, far more would have survived.
It's incredibly saddening that issues like heirarchy and jurastiction caused more casualties in this accident.
As far as I know, it is still not known or publisiced who ordered the site investigation to be cancelled.
This person sure has some hand in the casualty numbers as well.
And on a seperate note, I appreciate the show's effort to acutally hire Japanese people to fill the roles in this episode.
So many other shows just hire generic people who fit the general look and it is obvious they are not from the country they are trying to portray.
Props for the added realism.
It is so sad that they couldn’t rescue them sooner ! 😢
speculation got the better of the resucers and the few people left alive in the wreckage eventually succumbed to their injuries and died. such a senseless loss of life for the few remaining survivors because the authorities refused outside help. mind boggling.
14 hours to arrive? Japan is a small place. smaller than California.
Through MOUNTAINS at night?
Lucky they found anyone alive. Remember the 5 months it took to find Julian Sands?
also, THE Boeing repair team messed up royally, and if they had done repairs correctly then those people would likely never crashed. So sad😢😢😢😢RIP TO ALL THAY DIED🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@triacatz7139Yeah they would have saved few more people would they have gone there sooner, the American military was prevented to help by authorities, because pride.
@@triacatz7139let's not forget that the American's were right there to help, but the Japanese refused. The negligence of the technician who repaired the bulkhead brought the plane down. But probably more people could have surived if it wasn't for Japan's pride. Imagine suriviving the crash heavily wounded and then waiting for hours and nobody comes to rescue. That's really terrible
yeah, that botched rescue definitely led to a higher death toll...
So sorry for the people and families involved. It’s so tragic. My dad flew small planes and he used to have to help me understand how planes work. I still can’t believe these machines get us from one place to another. It still makes it hard to fly.
Rest in peace Jal 123
You can assume that the team that repaired the bulkhead was told that 1 row of rivets was enough.
No criminal charges..it always comes down to lawsuits..
1 road of ribbons vs a jumbo jet with 500 passengers..
Do you expect Boeing to go to prison?
At some point, yes. And I think we are at that point. Time for people to be held accountable. Boeing employees say that those training employees how to build planes are an outside firm of people who have never built a plane. A lot more Boeing planes are going to come down in the coming decade.
@@heyaisdabombthey have had criminal charges filed against them as of recent
8 PSI doesn't sound like much to say an automotive tire person, but with that many square inches, that is a massive amount of force!
While hearing about the crash, all I could think was "Bless you all."
Everytime I fly I always ask God to let me see my kids for one last time. I used to love flying and have flown on long haul. But every time I get on a flight I am full of fear. God bless all the people who died. The terror they must have felt it's awful to think about.
it's soo sad innocent people to die like that.
Very heartbreaking tragedy but very valuable lessons.May God have mercy on the souls of the deceased.
What lesson? Don't trust japan?
Where was your god when this happened?
It is both amazing and terrifying how quickly a chain reaction can be triggered by the smallest detail. And then they're just powerless up there. I find it appalling that nobody thought it important enough to get to crash site as soon as possible to check for survivors. These poor people had to endure 30 minutes of absolute terror in the air, and then lay there cold and scared for hours while dying a slow and agonizing death. Nobody deserves that level of suffering.
absolutely disgraceful! So many were still alive, there's no excuse for this. Very sad indeed..
4:39 I saw this visual. I saw Mt. Osutaka labeled. I said "Wait what is that mountain they've labeled, I've never heard of that." I immediately googled it and it spoiled it for me, because apparently, the only notable thing that Wikipedia has to say about this mountain is that "The plane crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 was initially reported on Mount Osutaka, but later confirmed to be on a ridge near Mount Takamagahara. It was the deadliest single-plane accident in world history."
Those poor people. So sad…
Bad rescue people
I always think that the worst part about being on a plane is that I can't see the pilots. Feels like I'm riding on something with no operator! Don't like trains for the same reason, I can't see who's operating it!
This is exactly why I am not touching public flights until they come up with a new safety strategy when I crashes about to begin
Millions of people fly every day! Plane crashes are the most rare types of crashes in technology. You’re more likely to die in a car crash.
Do you stay away from cars and ANY land road traffic also?
@@InspektoraDeFrutasdo you believe every statistic out there? Lol
@@InspektoraDeFrutas I preferred to travel by Amtrak
@@bobbyromanczuk I prefer statistics over opinions with no base in reality.
@@bobbyromanczuk
I believe my God and the sound mind that He gave me. Including testing and analyzing the statistics and their sources!
How many victims of plane crashes do you know personally? And how many victims of car crashes?
End of story, Case closed!
Anyways, it’s useless to argue with unreasonable and irrationally fearful people. Goodbye and have a good life!
Be blessed and shalom 👋👋
Why I don't fly #2,298.
A 54 min flight, cost them their lives🙏🏽💐🕊️May they continue to rest in peace. Great reenactment
Hypoxia is so scary bc it happens so fast... its absolutely insane to me to think that The Captain and the crew knew to put on the masks but then never did just making it worse omg wow
Pilots did not put on oxygen right away. Captain zoned out. Too much atc talk, the japan rescue services fought w each other while live survivors died. Trying to get people to medical help the tv cameras and staff interference made it harder.
This is disgusting at best. My prayers for people waiting 14 hours not getting help.
I think they need a type of sensor to tell them when the tail comes off!
The older couple holding hands really got me😭
"The pilots don't know and will never know" Damn that hits hard 😢
35:23 I thought that was the back of the airplane, then it started to take off vertically 😂
The actors in this documentary did a great job, their portrayal of the passengers was very convincing. Also, the investigative reporting was superb.
I met a guy who survived the Delta crash in Dallas in 1985. He told me a million things go through your head at the same time, esp if you know you're gonna crash and the crew cannot do a thing to stop it. Oh, and he got rich off of it.
I bet he never flew again.
14hours after crash !!! Poor people
19:10 The plane is falling at 900 metres per second
Flight attendant: "There's no need for alarm"
Heart wrenching audio on the CVR.
The scene where the child’s toy plane dropped to the floor as the jet plummeted to the ground made my heart shatter.
Even though the pilot’s did all they could to keep the plane flying the crash was inevitable💥, but it’s still a miracle that 4 passengers survived❤️, but others could’ve survive, but no the authorities had waited 14 hours for some unknown reason💔. May the soul’s Rest in peace🌸.
I have seen several documentaries on this crash. All of them say if the authorities had went ahead and sent out rescue, many more people would have survived. Most of them died waiting for help. 😢
The Japanese are the ones who refused help
why us army rescue team was not allow to intervene or to give the correct position of the plane 14 hours earlier ?
Because some BS people occupied the Japanes responsible authorities offices !
Politics and bitchery
I know plane crashes (to this degree at least...) are rare and getting more rare as technology and plane science grows (hope for the day they can find a way to put parachutes on these planes for everyone...), not to mention its only these that make the news so that should say enough of how rare they are, but damn do I just have anxiety getting on a plane because you never know when you might be that next plane. So many factors and all you can do is be a bystander and hope the pilots know what they're doing, that the plane is up to date and maintained, that no freak accident occurs...
"Say ... what's a mountain-goat doing way up here in a cloud-bank?"
I’m not crazy about flying but sometimes you have no choice if you have to get somewhere!!!
Sad to watch😢
My condolences,
The thing for the re-uploads of all Mayday chapters is for putting time stamps and better quality?
Are you complaining?
Idk a lotta these re uploads I haven’t seen and going through old ones might take too long for me to go through ig
@@MeemingStar Of course not, this is the chapter i watch most time during the first Seasons of Mayday, so is good to see it re uploaded with Time Stamps to see every step fo the accident.
@@MeemingStarWhy do you want to know?
@@CosmicRPGSame. I watched these episodes ages ago and just recently discovered the channel on CZcams. It’s nostalgic and nice to see it organized whereas, before, I was just constantly hitting fast forward and replay trying to find a specific part.
All I wish is no one should commit suicide no matter how guilty you are or no matter how hard the situation...
Will never get my head around why UNTIL TODAY none of the planes would show status of ALL AREAS of the plane to pilots!😢
I have been asking this question, why dont aircraft have camers outside to see above and beneath so as for pilots to see whats going on around their planes.
Probably the high air pressure will destroy the camera.
I'm only guessing, but I can imagine that any extra parts on the outside of an airplane could possibly become a safety hazard itself.
They would never get to hear Van Halen in the Sammy Hagar era
The cast was amazing this episode. 👏👏👏
The rescue team are terrible 😢 they left the injured overnight and let some of them to die💔 that's shocking
29:16 I like how they make the girl look like half her face is burned then immediately show the actual girl with a perfectly fine face 💀
And then 49:48 in January the JAL crashed again
I have watched hundreds of air disaster episodes,but this has been the most upsetting episode ever,just because of the incompetence of the rescue teams...SMFH
If i survived and saw all those bodies at night i would probably have been traumatized for life and earned alot of mental illnesses that is complete horror that i wouldn’t wish uppon my worst enemies
I am so sorry for this
Those ads were amazing, however some airplane disaster documentary kept on interrupting them. 😤
The disconnect between the pilots and passengers (most airlines) needs to be corrected.
See >>>5:30
Whoever that was in charge of leading the rescue team and the one in charge of fixing the tail 7 years earlier are the one who should be held accountable. Human error is no excuse for such negligence. RIP 520 innocent souls. Kudo's to the pilot and his crew.