All Nippon Airways Flight 60
| All Nippon Airways Flight 60 | |
|---|---|
| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) |
| place | 10 km south-southeast of Haneda Airport |
| date | 4th February 1966 |
| Fatalities | 133 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 727-81 |
| operator | All Nippon Airways |
| Mark | JA8302 |
| Departure airport | Sapporo Chitose Airport |
| Destination airport | Tokyo Haneda Airport |
| Passengers | 126 |
| crew | 7th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On February 4, 1966, a Boeing 727-100 on All-Nippon Airways Flight 60 crashed into Tokyo Bay under unexplained circumstances while approaching Tokyo Haneda Airport .
plane
The Boeing 727 was 11 months old at the time of the crash. Most of the passengers came from an annual winter festival in Chitose .
course
The last radio contact was a few minutes away from the destination airport. The pilots reported to air traffic control that they wanted to approach runway 33R in a visual approach. Following a request from air traffic control, the pilots reported at 7 p.m. that they were making a transverse approach . This was the last radio contact; a few minutes later the aircraft hit the surface of the sea. Despite immediate rescue measures, there were no survivors.
Salvage
Of the 133 people on board, only 20 bodies could be recovered. The aircraft was completely destroyed, except for the tail and the wings. The debris was recovered for an accident investigation.
Crash Cause Theory
Examination of the debris revealed that the Boeing 727 hit the water intact. One hypothesis is that the pilots lost their orientation during the visual approach and made the aircraft sink too quickly, so that it then crashed on the water.
Series of crashes in Japan
The accident on All Nippon Airways Flight 60 was the first of five accidents involving passenger planes in Japan in 1966 that shattered confidence in aviation there.
- March 4: Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 kills 64
- March 5: BOAC flight 911 kills 124
- August 26th: Takeoff accident of a Convair CV-880 of Japan Domestic Airlines (JA8030) during a training flight with 5 dead
- November 13: All Nippon Airways flight 533 kills 50
Web links
- Accident report B-727-100 JA8302 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 22, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Accident Report CV-880 JA8030 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 22 of 2019.