Japan Air Lines Flight 715
Japan Air Lines | |
Registration | JA8051 |
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Flight origin | Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo, Japan |
1st stopover | Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong |
Last stopover | Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Subang, Malaysia |
Destination | Singapore International Airport, Singapore |
Passengers | 69 |
Crew | 10 |
Fatalities | 34 |
Injuries | 45 |
Survivors | 45 |
Japan Air Lines Flight 715 (日本航空 715便, Nihonkōkū 715 Bin) was an airplane that crashed in
Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62H (serial number 46152 and factory 550), manufactured in 1971, and delivered to Japan Air Lines on 23 August. It was registered as JA8051. The aircraft was powered by four Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B turbofan engines.[3]
Accident
Two hours into the flight, air traffic control at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport told flight 715 to start its approach and land on runway 15. The flight crew started their approach, putting the landing gear down and extending the flaps. The aircraft descended below minimum descent altitude of 750 feet (230 m), then at 300 feet (91 m), it crashed into the side of a hill 4 miles (3.5 nmi; 6.4 km) from the airport, near an estate called Elmina Estate.[4] The aircraft broke on impact, and a fire erupted, which was extinguished by airport rescue and firefighting.[5]
The accident killed 34 people: eight of the 10 crew and 26 of the 69 passengers. Forty-five survivors, among the passengers and crew, were taken to a hospital.[6] The remains from the crash could be found in the soil surrounding the estate until 2011. Most of the land now is being converted to developments.[7]
A memorial was built in the Japanese cemetery in Kuala Lumpur.[8]
The crash was the second-deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Malaysia until the crash of Malaysian Airline System Flight 653, two months later, with 100 fatalities.[1]
Investigation
The
See also
- Elmina plane crash, happened in the same area 46 years later
- Malaysian Airline System Flight 653, another plane crash in Malaysia that happened three months later
References
- ^ Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ^ "A body part of the Japan Airlines 715 is seen a day after the crash..." Getty Images. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "JA8051 Japan Airlines Douglas DC-8-62H - cn 46152 / ln 550". Planespotters.net. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ^ Nadeswaran, R. (27 September 2020). "NST175: Japan Airlines crash changed my life". New Straits Times. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ Thuraisingam, K. (15 October 2017). "Malaysian Civil Defence officer remembers the JAL plane crash of 1977". The Star. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ "45 Survive Fiery Malaysia Jet Crash". Desert Sun. 27 September 1977. Retrieved 12 March 2021 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ a b "Accidents JAL has caused other than Flight 123 Accident". JAPAN AIRLINES Corporate Information. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ^ "マレーシア日本人墓地を訪ねて" [Visit a Japanese cemetery in Malaysia]. www.eva.hi-ho.ne.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- ^ "Aircraft Accident Report No. 1/77 - Chief Inspector of Accidents & Department of Civil Aviation, Malaysia. - McDonnell Douglas DC-8 (Super 62) - JA8051 - Report on the Accident Near Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Subang, Selangor on 27th September, 1977" (PDF). Ministry of Transport Malaysia.
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