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Episode 17.

Japan Airlines Flight 1,23, August 12, 1985, 520 deceased, four injured.

Please live bravely. Please look after the children.

Passenger Kazuo Yoshimura in a note to his wife, written during the emergency on Japan Airlines Flight 123.

The crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 is actually two crashes.

It is the crash that happened on August 12, 1985, and it's the first crash that happened on June 2nd, 1978.

On that day the Boeing 747 was coming in for a landing at Osaka International Airport.

On that particular day as the plane was landing, the pilots were bringing it in with the nose just a little too high.

When you're landing a plane, you don't land it, obviously, with the plane parallel to the ground

because you run the risk of the nose going too far down and a crash occurring.

So if you've ever seen any plane landing, you know for a fact that they land with their nose a little bit up.

But you have to go only so far.

If you go too high up, much like with a teeter totter, the bottom can hit the ground.

In this case, that's exactly what happened.

When they landed, the tail struck the ground, the runway, that is, and there was some damage.

Now, 24 people on board were injured, but everybody survived.

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