31st anniversary of JAL crash on Mount Osutaka remembered
Friday marked 31st anniversary of the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on Mount Osutaka in Gunma Prefecture, with hundreds of relatives of the victims scheduled later in the day to visit the scene of the nation’s worst air disaster, which claimed 520 lives. With 524 passengers and crew members aboard, JAL Flight 123 bound for Osaka’s Itami airport from Tokyo’s Haneda crashed into the mountain on Aug. 12, 1985. There were only four survivors. A monument dedicated to the victims was later built on a steep slope so the relatives can visit the crash site to pay their respects to their deceased kin. But due to the fact that the relatives are aging, participants in recent years have numbers only around 300. Later in the day, JAL President Yoshiharu Ueki was scheduled to join the relatives and offer prayers.<br/>
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31st anniversary of JAL crash on Mount Osutaka remembered
Friday marked 31st anniversary of the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on Mount Osutaka in Gunma Prefecture, with hundreds of relatives of the victims scheduled later in the day to visit the scene of the nation’s worst air disaster, which claimed 520 lives. With 524 passengers and crew members aboard, JAL Flight 123 bound for Osaka’s Itami airport from Tokyo’s Haneda crashed into the mountain on Aug. 12, 1985. There were only four survivors. A monument dedicated to the victims was later built on a steep slope so the relatives can visit the crash site to pay their respects to their deceased kin. But due to the fact that the relatives are aging, participants in recent years have numbers only around 300. Later in the day, JAL President Yoshiharu Ueki was scheduled to join the relatives and offer prayers.<br/>
