All Nippon Airways Flight 58

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All Nippon Airways Flight 58
All Nippon Airways Boeing 727-281 (JA8343 881 20572) (7855381336) .jpg

An ANA Boeing 727-200 similar to the crashed aircraft

Accident summary
Accident type Airplane collision in the air
place Shizukuishi
date July 30, 1971
Fatalities 162
Injured 1 (pilot of the F-86)
1. Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 727-281
operator All Nippon Airways
Mark JA8329
Departure airport Sapporo Chitose Airport
Destination airport Tokyo Haneda Airport
Passengers 155
crew 7th
Survivors 0
2. Aircraft
Aircraft type Mitsubishi F-86F Saber
operator Air Self Defense Forces
Mark 92-7932
crew 1
Survivors 1
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The All Nippon Airways Flight 58 was a scheduled flight from All Nippon Airways , in which the aircraft used on 30 July 1971 after a collision near the ski resort Shizukuishi crashed.

plane

The Boeing 727-281 All Nippon Airways, Plate JA8329 and equipped with three engines of the type JT8D-9A , was at the time of the accident five months old. Most of the passengers were from Fuji Town , Shizuoka Prefecture .

course

The Boeing 727 was at its cruising altitude of 28,000 feet with its destination Tokyo . Meanwhile, there were two F-86 Saber of Air Self-Defense Forces , which at the air base Matsushima were stationed, with an instructor and his student on a training flight. As the F-86 approached the Boeing 727, the instructor ordered to swerve to the left. However, the F-86 the student collided with the left elevator of Boeing, which immediately in the swoop passed, while the F-86 lost its right wing. The 727 broke apart in midair, and the wreckage of the plane fell to the ground near Shizukuishi. All 162 inmates died. The F-86 crashed into a rice field, the pilot survived because he had got out of the ejector seat before the collision . The crash of the 727 was the worst accident at the time, both for a Boeing and for an aircraft within Japan; to date (July 2017) it is the worst accident in the history of All Nippon Airways.

An Air Defense Forces F-86 Saber

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Accident report B-727 JA8329 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on September 6, 2016.
  2. Flight safety: All Nippon Airways. In: Focus Online . March 23, 2009, accessed October 14, 2018 .

Coordinates: 39 ° 41 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 140 ° 59 ′ 13.2 ″  E