Japan Air Lines flight 8054
| Japan Air Lines flight 8054 | |
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_AN1108405.jpg) A DC-8-62 from Japan Air Lines, similar to the aircraft that crashed |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Stall at takeoff |
| place |
Anchorage Airport , United States
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| date | January 13, 1977 |
| Fatalities | 5 (all) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
Douglas DC-8-62AF
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| operator |
 Japan Air Lines
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| Mark |
JA8054
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| Departure airport |
Anchorage Airport , United States
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| Destination airport |
Tokyo Haneda Airport , Japan
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| Passengers | 2 |
| crew | 3 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On 13 January 1977, a crashed cargo plane of the type Douglas DC-8-62 on the Japan Air Lines Flight 8054 (Flight number: JL8054 ), one under the brand name JAL Cargo performed charter flight of Japan Airlines , immediately after the start of Anchorage Airport . The five crew members were killed in the accident. Forensic investigations revealed that the captain who controlled the aircraft was heavily drunk at the time of the accident.
plane
The aircraft ( registration number : JA8054, c / n : 46148, s / n : 553) was built in 1971 and was equipped with four Pratt & Whitney JT3D engines. By the time of the accident, the machine had completed a total of 19,744 flight hours, of which 8708 hours since the last major inspection and 45 since the last technical inspection. Since the machine was on an unscheduled charter flight, the digits of the aircraft registration number were used as the flight number.
Inmates and cargo
The cockpit crew consisted of three crew members. The captain was the 53-year-old American Hugh L. Marsh, who had been employed by Japan Air Lines since June 1969 and had had a type rating for flying a DC-8 since 1970 . The 31-year-old first officer Kunihika Aktiani had been employed by Japan Airlines since May 1970 and had had a type rating for the DC-8 since 1976. Flight engineer was the 31-year-old Nobumasa Yokokawa.
Since the machine was used to transport cattle , two zookeepers were on board in addition to the crew .
the accident
The crew boarded the aircraft at 5:15 a.m. The checklist for the launch was completed at 6:09 a.m. For departure from Anchorage , the aircraft had received take-off clearance from runway 24L. In the thick fog, the master had initially rolled to runway 24R by mistake. The air traffic controller then helped the crew to reach the correct runway by issuing appropriate instructions.
A stall occurred almost immediately after the machine took off. At a height of 30 meters, the machine leaned to the right and fell to the ground 300 meters beyond the end of the runway.
causes
As it turned out after the crash, the taxi driver who had driven the crew to the airport noticed that Captain Marsh looked disoriented. His face was flushed and his eyes were glazed over, he spoke indistinctly and incoherently, and walked unsteadily. The driver then contacted his shift supervisor in the taxi center to tell him about his experiences. The shift supervisor called Japan Air Lines at 4:50 am to warn the company that one of their pilots was drunk. On the phone, he was told that there were no abnormalities regarding the crew.
Forensic examinations of Captain Marsh's body showed a blood alcohol content of 2.98 per mille at the time of the accident. In later interviews with witnesses, 6 out of 13 people who spoke to Marsh before the crash said they had noticed he was drunk. The driver of the shuttle bus, who drove the crew to the machine for boarding, said, however, that the captain seemed to him as always as if he was in good shape, and that he had said this before rumors got around, that the captain was drunk.
Another factor that led to the accident, the NTSB investigators suspected hoar frost on the wings. This would have reduced the angle of attack at which a stall occurs. The captain had raised the aircraft nose too steeply for a safe take-off under the given conditions. Finally, the investigators came to the conclusion that in addition to the captain's drunkenness and the formation of ice on the machine, the responsibility for the crash also lay with the other crew members, as they had not made any attempts to prevent the master from steering the machine.
Similar incidents
Other flight accidents in which alcohol consumption by the pilots played a role included: a .:
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Accident Report DC-8-62AF, JA8054 , Aviation Safety Network , accessed on March 3, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Japan Airlines, Company, Ltd., McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-62F, JA 8054, Anchorage, Alaska, January 13, 1977. ( en ) National Transportation Safety Board . Retrieved March 3, 2019.
Coordinates: 61 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ N , 150 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ W.