Uncontrollable - Tribute to Flight 123

[gent2000]

stay aloft bud

[gent2000]

flown

[gent2000]

japan air 747 is my flying buddy and it makes me sad that she crashed

[gent2000]

oh man

[gent2000]

holy lown r u ok japan airlines 747jumbo?

[BOOM7STAR]

Makes no damn since, what was jal trying to prove? took them 14 freaking hrs just to reach the site, and our service men was there in 20min, absolute BS.

[gent2000]

poor japan airlines 747

[katsuhitoful]

さびしい・・・。

[katsuhitoful]

no no ja8119

[mdhcf960A]

It lost all three hydropressure systems.

It had lost vertical stabilizer too.

It got out of control exept throttle, gear-down system and flap control system.

They tried to keep its holizontal position. But it was hard.

It couldn't go byond a ridge.

It crushed.

About 500 passengers were killed.

Only four passengers survived.

[30inventionman]

They need to start naming flights like, "Bugs Bunny" Or "daffy Duck. Because numerically, digits just sound and seems to creepy, jal123, so creepy.

[katsuhitoful]

123japan

[katsuhitoful]

ja8119

[PATTACAT]

I HATE FUCKING POLITICS ....WHO CARES WHAT COUNTRY WANTS TO HELP, IT'S WHO EVER GETS THERE FIRST...WHAT IS THE HUMAN RACE BECOMING??? WE ARE WORST THAN ANIMALS!!! GOD BLESS THEIR SOULS. CANADA.

[oneinamillion232]

The details of this disaster are numbing. Such a heartbreaking tragedy God rest their souls, every last one of them : (((((

[TonyWilliamsFever]

"Lesbian Seagull"

[YouGotJEWD]

I LOL'D at this GREAT video!!!!!!

[patko1610]

i just dont understand one thing who is the blame co evrybody had part of fault exept for passengers and pilots (BTW :why didnt pilots had oxygen masks down

[cjwillfadeneva]

I Kinda like ur comment. Next time we fly....and going to crash onto a hillside, we will give evryone enough oxygen haha

[patko1610]

@cjwillfadeneva i meant llike trough flight

[StudiosXPS]

this is why we Americans hate japan. US tries to help japan says fuck you. We got to the crash site in 20 minutes and it took you 14 hours. It only a matter of time before they kill themselves. Cuz seriously. How do american forces in another country get there before japan forces get their, it their fucking country. AMAZING!! eh

[halo10001]

@StudiosXPS

Hey fuck you, I'll admit that human rivalry and hatred for each other fucked most of the passengers of Flight 123, but don't you fucking dare say that the entire country of Japan is responsible for this tragedy. If the American rescue team fucking had any balls they would have disobeyed their orders to return and goddamn help those poor souls anyways. This is why most of the world hates America, because of their fucking ignorance AND arrogance. Every country has their faults.

[FlyBraniff]

@halo10001 So if American rescue teams had disobeyed Japanese orders to stay away from the crash site and return to Yokota Air Base that wouldn't have been interpreted as arrogant. And most of the world hates America so much that each year we have record numbers of illegal immigrants risking life and limb to get into this terrible place. Do you people even bother firing up a few neurons before starting to type?

[halo10001]

@FlyBraniff

Excuse me? I didn't say anything about America's arrogance in relation to Flight 123. Also, America is a first world country, of course people will flock to it, the illusion of free will and the "American dream" draws people there like flies to a light. That doesn't mean no one hates America. I meant arrogance, because America took place in nearly every war in the 20th century.

[halo10001]

@FlyBraniff

Also, I recall, when the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami happened, do you know how many people said shit like "Oh, it was revenge for Pearl Harbor." and "Revenge of the dolphins and whales!" ? A whole fuck load of people. Did YOU even bother up firing up a few brain cells before you began to type?

[LadyScarface991]

what a Beautiful tribute! may all who perished that fateful day Rest In Peace & there families have some comfort today.

[TheAmessz]

Thats sad

[foopy6]

wow. that was sad.

[jasongarstka]

I cant find this song anywhere online or on iTunes. Gareth Mills doesnt seem to exist. If anyone can help me out, i appreciate it.

[Imprezagtto]

Beautiful Plane. RIP xx

[COD04MW]

Oh, MAN! 20 Minutes that the US Forces took to reach there VS. 14 Hours that the JSDF Took to get there... That's insane!

[vnck25]

@COD04MW

Americans are too fast that's there problem...

[johntitorlives]

Kyu Sakamoto's most popular song, "Ue o muite arukō" ("I look up when I walk") was popular around the world. Very sad considering he died in a plane crash.

He wrote a farewell note to his wife on the plane.

[pollister43]

@johntitorlives

Kyu Sakamoto's song was popular throughout most of the world, but outside of Japan it was titled "Sukiyaki".

Released originally in 1961 though it didn't reach North America until 1963.

[ThreeSevenSpeedway]

The other mistake was on 0:27, where the aircraft decipted in the picture was JA8163, a Boeing 747-346SR.

[ThreeSevenSpeedway]

The only oddity of this video is that the plane recorded on 0:36 was JA8131, a Boeing 747-146SUD (or a 747-346 maybe?), and it was not the 747-SR46 mentioned.

[jonisonvespa]

where did they bury the suvivours?????

ha ha ha ha, you dont bury suvivours because they are alive.

[1hanapaa]

@jonisonvespa

stupid

[huvander]

V sad ! God bless their souls.

[supervin410]

what about kyu the famous singer?

[bonklers1527]

nakakatakot nman..

kawawa nman cla..

[donnchadh5]

5 star for sure congrats

[banhedda]

there were 19 but 15 froze to death because the japnesse didnt let the americans help

[lirr56890]

what's the name of that song.

[xKimchiify]

u can find the song at the link bar...lirr

[lirr56890]

were's the link bar.

[xKimchiify]

link bar is on the sing of the video

[ANTRAX120286]

Unbelievable flying, to keep this plane in the air for nearly 40 min is unthinkable. Its too bad the airline was to blame in the eyes of the Japan although Boeing was to blame. Very sad..the maintenance supervisor committed suicide. RIP

[blablalandnews]

good pilot anyware

[noladol]

I can't believe 4 people survived. Crazy.

[XCharger]

would you believe the 4 survivors said there were MANY more who WOULD have survived had the Japanese defense forces allowed a rescue mission by the US armed forces

[noladol]

I know! It kinda makes me mad. =o/

[maxsuperdudeisawesom]

May all who perished from Japan Airlines Flight 123 rest in peace.

[nocturn333]

the worse part is the people that died overnight

[GTAstuntman101]

by the way, that JAL 747looks as if it is controlled by 7 unvisible string , and it looks like a model bought from a toy store.

[GTAstuntman101]

i know how to fly a plane without hydraulics, throttles up to climb throttles down to descend and more thrust from one wing makes the plane turn

[mrozekm]

And that's exactly what the crew was doing but there's a slight difference between flying and landing.

On simulator no pilots manged to land in that situation.

[GTAstuntman101]

but one plane did manage to land without hydraulics, a cargo plane in Bagdhad airport

[SFOFun]

I rest assured that you would have done a far better job than the crew of 123. Without hydraulics is one thing; without a rear stabilizer quite another.

[FutureUALPilot]

Where'd u download the song One Day I'll be happy?

[hazard0987654321]

WOW. only 4 out of 524 survived. 0.768% of the people survived!

[GTAstuntman101]

about 20 more were with them, but those 20 died of hypotermia

[Imprezagtto]

did they ever find the vertical stabilizer ?

[maxsuperdudeisawesom]

I think so...

[nocturn333]

in the water when it got torn off

[halo10001]

@Imprezagtto

I know your comment is a year old, but fuck it.

Yes they did find it, a shipping boat found it floating around in the water about the exact place where the aircraft first radioed in an emergency.

[Imprezagtto]

@halo10001 wow , cheers for getting back to me :D really appriciate it .

[icpirate]

Thank you for that great tribute. A lot of things went wrong and we can blame many people, but it's a moot point. Lives were lost and hopefully, lessons were learned.

[seanroberts86]

great piece thank you

[420tenke420]

This is sad, but how more lives could of been saved over that night, damn japs piss me off

[gdwrumble12]

@420tenke420 /no, the damn japs RESCUE team pisses me off.

[GTAstuntman101]

oh, it looks so alike i mistaen it as -400

[GTAstuntman101]

who agrees that this crash is sad, copy this:

R.I.P to JAL 123 747-400

[UAL8658]

buddy, jal123 wasn't a 747-400, it was a -200

[maxsuperdudeisawesom]

I thought it was a 747-100SR

Maybe it was a 747-200.

Oh well

[kaiyno]

747-SR46

[GTAstuntman101]

what a smart pilot! he was able to keep the plane in the air for 32 minutes after the bulkhead disintegrated!

[hazard0987654321]

Ditto here!

[iamscottylive]

Love you

[ualtigger]

It's called maintenance costs... you repair the aircraft the way the OWNER wants it done. I'm not saying that's what happened here.. but I agree with you... how can you put one row of rivets on a bulkhead...

[Opelfreakie]

it was a mistake. probably inexperienced worker

[ualtigger]

As part of the arrival crew at Yokota, I can answer this one... we are GUESTS in their country. This crash happened in Japan, not the US. Us forcing them to accept our help would be like them forcing us to let them help. Pride and honor are two of the reasons this crash was as bad as it turned out to be... their pride in wanting to be a "self defence" force negated the honor in asking for us for help. Too many people that had the "we can do it ourselves" mentality were on duty that day...

[marcelodelagoXD]

i agree with u.rest in peace. its true about dying in freezing. i think about 50 pasengers survived,but 46 die. thats what i think

[june0024]

Watching this in NGC, it made me sad... Too many people died... Though the pilots did a nearly impossible feat of making the plane fly despite the condition, the did it... I think it was the JSDF did a bad decision over this...

[sdfjsdhgfj]

sad sad sad. the song is also sad.

[hazard0987654321]

WAIT?!??! If it crashed upside down, HOW COULD IT HAVE BEEN SHOWED DOWN-SIDE UP?!?!?!!?!!?!!!?!

[tourbowrxsti]

sadest thing in the world!

[trigga1uk]

its terrible that there were more survivors and the americans could of helped, why did the japs order them to leave - they were trying to help, what did they think they were going to do -ffs!

[slyguytoo]

im still not understanding how the tail could be riped off can someone reply and explain that?

[Watcher3223]

The 747 was involved in a tailstrike incident during landing. The tail of the 747 impacted the runway because the pilot had the nose up too high during landing.

A repair was attempted to the damaged aft bulkhead, but the repair was found to have been performed improperly. Instead of one aluminum doubler plate with three rivets, there were two doubler plates, one with two rivets and one with just one. How they were applied basically placed the stresses on one set of rivets instead of all three.

[Watcher3223]

The tailstrike incident and the repair occurred years before the crash of flight 123.

With the improper repair, it was only a matter of time. The single set of rivets experienced excessive aerodynamic stresses with each landing and takeoff cycle and during each flight. It got to the point where metal fatigue caused the doubler plate fix to fail, allowing the tail to be ripped off from the aft bulkhead, which also disabled all hydraulic circuits powering the control surfaces.

[Watcher3223]

Had the repair to the aft bulkhead been performed properly, the crash would not have happened.

[berbagod1994]

Great Video. Really touching.

Rest in peace JAL Flight 123.

Hopefully aviation doesn't have to experience a crash like this again.

[hazard0987654321]

Can someone answer this?WHY IS IT ROCKING

 SIDE TO SIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ualtigger]

If you're talking about the up & down motion, that's called a "phugoid" which occurs when an airplane is trying to maintain a constant speed... if it's going faster than a harmonic speed, the plane will make itself go up to slow down... too slow, and it makes itself go down to speed up. Side to side would be because the stablizing effect of the tail is gone... most of it blew away when the bulkhead went.

[ualtigger]

I was assigned to Yokota Air Base on that day... we waited and waited. We were told the aircraft was coming to us because of the length of our runways... we handle the C-5 with no problems... and with no brakes (no hydraulics) we have overruns to handle that. We saw the plane turn from us and disappear. Our guys were the first ones to take off when we were told the plane had crashed. To this day, I wonder why we weren't allowed to help... we were waiting.

[ej20takowrc]

123便はJA8119です。

[BackwoodPictures]

Sorry, I don't understand your question. Can you explain? The flight was flight 123 and the plane was registered JA8119. If this answers it. If not, I will be happy to answer.

[JALflight123]

I have also watched this on a tv show called Mayday and i cant belive that it crashed upside down!

[JALflight123]

omg!!! this is so so sad =-(

[PeanutsAMV]

Scary at 3:01 theres a hand in the window 0.o

[supervin410]

me too is it the singer?

[edsels58]

The one thing that bothers me somewhat about this video is that full blame for the accident rests on Boeing. I have read that JAL accepted partial responsibility because the tail had been making intermittent noise and had been reported for several years after the repair and no action was taken by JAL's maintenance.

[flouuw]

Oh my god... I'm sorry for this family.

[Imprezagtto]

musta been a trainee ;)

[Thorskeeper]

more then 400 people died.

[Wboy74]

more than 500 actually

[jhummel0000]

man this crash was so said when i whatched pt3 and 4 i started CRYING SEVERLY

:(

[sargentshadow]

he's three you shold do

flash airlines flt 603

korea airlins flt 801

helios airlines flt 522

[doris0706]

dude

this video i say a lot is really boring

go to arenaskies because he got the full version

[brendankobrien]

keeping the plane in the air an amazing 32 minutes...

YEAH I BET THE PEOPLE IN THERE THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY FUCKING AMAZING!

[flightsimboy]

are you going to make more videos please make one on flight 522

[flightsimboy]

what is the name of the s9ong

[BackwoodPictures]

The main soing is called "Who?" and the end song is called "One Day I'll Be Happy". Both are by Gareth Mills.

[Filmsuploader]

Great song. Really fits the video.

[FLT111]

culd you please do one on Aeroperuy flight 603

[machanderd]

Your tributes are fantastic!!!

Very sad too, but they show the truth as well.

[gencobaser]

i remember this crash from a documantry and the tail which broke is the one which is keeping the planes balnce and everyone was suprised how did the plane survive 30 minutes and the thing makes me wonderi is how is the plane going up and down and that plane crashed before and it was pilotble but temporaşy and the reapir thing they used were bad to thats thw reason why the plane crashed if anyone didnt understand me sorry

[BackwoodPictures]

It goes up and down because it enters what's called the "Phugoid Cycle". As there is no hydraulics, the pilots can't control the lift of the plane. The plane starts diving, picks up speed and gains more lift which pulls the plane up. As the plane climbs it then loses speed and loses lift and starts to dive. It repeats this over and over. The only way of controlling the plane is by using the engine speed. Adding and taking off power at the right times. More power to one side will make it bank.

[gencobaser]

can yo make more videos about this planes crashes there very od because you gşve good informaiton

[BackwoodPictures]

It goes up and down because it enters what's called the "Phugoid Cycle". As there is no hydraulics, the pilots can't control the lift of the plane. The plane starts diving, picks up speed and gains more lift which pulls the plane up. As the plane climbs it then loses speed and loses lift and starts to dive. It repeats this over and over. The only way of controlling the plane is by using the engine speed. Adding and taking off power at the right times. More power to one side will make it bank.

[BackwoodPictures]

It goes up and down because it enters what's called the "Phugoid Cycle". As there is no hydraulics, the pilots can't control the lift of the plane. The plane starts diving, picks up speed and gains more lift which pulls the plane up. As the plane climbs it then loses speed and loses lift and starts to dive. It repeats this over and over. The only way of controlling the plane is by using the engine speed. Adding and taking off power at the right times. More power to one side will make it bank.

[BackwoodPictures]

It goes up and down because it enters what's called the "Phugoid Cycle". As there is no hydraulics, the pilots can't control the lift of the plane. The plane starts diving, picks up speed and gains more lift which pulls the plane up. As the plane climbs it then loses speed and loses lift and starts to dive. It repeats this over and over. The only way of controlling the plane is by using the engine speed. Adding and taking off power at the right times. More power to one side will make it bank.

[125RTY]

@BackwoodPictures another smaller airliner had almost same problem , i think sioux city crash. they were able to land by using speed of both engines. i believe most survived.

[gencobaser]

why did you send me or 9 times lol

[Apocalypss]

kyu sakamoto!!!... he died in this plane =(

[Apocalypss]

kyu sakamoto!!!... he died in this plane =(

[Apocalypss]

kyu sakamoto!!!... he died in this plane =(

[2drunksracing]

They should be ashamed of themselves for being a couple hours late instead they show 14 hours later, when US could have started that search!

[qazchaz]

So Sad those cute kids carrying cute dolls they all perishes ,-_-,

[AMDnewbie2005]

Did it have to do with honor? Why did they call off the Americans?

[ualtigger]

I was stationed at Yokota Air Base the day this happened as part of the arrival crew... if he had arrived... we were gone as soon as we heard he crashed. We still don't know why help hovering above the site would NOT be used... we were ordered away and had no choice but to leave.

[Dogfight3]

the hydroic pressure made the plane uncontroable because the gears are too heavy to control by human hands

[defcon1984]

excellent tribute!

[Donz5885]

That is why fly-by-wire is more reliable.

[BoeingRules]

Fly-by-wire or not, a plane still needs hydraulic fluids to move the vital controls, FBW uses electric pulses instead of the old mechanical ways. Most airplanes nowadays have hydraulic fuses, acting as shut off valves to stop fluid leakage. Fuses were among the airworthy directives that were issued after the JAL 123 disaster, but two more planes will loose hydraulics in a span of less than 2 decades.

[DuelistMaster9]

the most touching video for me and i know that accidents like JAL 123 wont happen again very nice to honor those 520 people that perished in this horrific incident second to Tenerife :(

[sabadelit]

the national geografic documentary presents very good the all story!

[sabadelit]

yes

[vydeoynkhorne]

I remember this flight and the pilot's grunts of "uncontrolable" over and over again, and the mounting fear of the passengers.

great special effects, and on flight 529's lost wing. were they cgi or models?

[flightsimboy]

sad :'(