Amazing Grace: Tribute to JAL flight 123

A tribute to the victims of the deadliest single air crash in history. Vocals by Leann Rimes - "Amazing Grace".

Japan Airlines flight 123 was a Japan Airlines domestic flight from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to Osaka International Airport (Itami). The Boeing 747-SR46 that made this route, registered JA8119, suffered mechanical failures 12 minutes into flight and 32 minutes later crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, 100 kilometers from Tokyo, on Monday 12 August 1985. The crash site was on Osutaka Ridge (おすたかのおね, Osutaka-no-One), near Mount Osutaka. All 15 crew members and 505 out of 509 passengers died, resulting in a total of 520 deaths and 4 survivors. It remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. The official cause of the crash according to the report published by Japan's then Aircraft Accidents Investigation Commission is as follows:

1. The aircraft was involved in a tailstrike incident at Osaka International Airport on 2 June 1978, which damaged the aircraft's rear pressure bulkhead.
2. The subsequent repair of the bulkhead did not conform to Boeing's approved repair methods. Their procedure calls for one continuous doubler plate with three rows of rivets to reinforce the damaged bulkhead, but the Boeing technicians fixing the aircraft used two separate doubler plates, one with two rows of rivets and one with only one row. This reduced the part's resistance to metal fatigue by 70%. According to the FAA, the one "doubler plate" which was specified for the job (the FAA calls it a "splice plate" - essentially a patch) was cut into two pieces parallel to the stress crack it was intended to reinforce, "to make it fit". This negated the effectiveness of two of the rows of rivets. During the investigation Boeing calculated that this incorrect installation would fail after approximately 10,000 pressurizations; the aircraft accomplished 12,319 take-offs between the installation of the new plate and the final accident.
3. When the bulkhead gave way, the resulting explosive decompression ruptured the lines of all four hydraulic systems. With the aircraft's control surfaces disabled, the aircraft became uncontrollable.

(Description by KayEigh)

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• 123
• deadliest
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• disaster
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• Leann Rimes
• Amazing Grace
• Yumi Ochiai
• Keiko Kawakami
• Mikiko
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• Yoshizaki
• Haneda
• Itami
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• Boeing
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• JA8119
• Osutaka
• Mount Takamagahara
• Ueno
• Gunma
• Prefecture

[cycloneyenna]

It's not about the quality of the music but the subject matter

"amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me"

This song is a song of rejoicing. While it might be appropriate at a funeral especially of a Christian the flight of JAL123 is essentially an unmitigated tragedy.

Amazing grace expresses how someone was saved by God. The people of JAL weren't saved. They weren't saved when Boeing made the incorrect repair and when countless inspections failed to notice anything wron

[kaiyno]

@cycloneyenna How would you know passengers from JAL flight 123 weren't saved by God upon death? Amazing Grace is a song of rejoicing but in a very sorrow way, the song is a complete nostalgic anthem in this particular style, despite the rejoicing lyrics it has. As far as I know, this song is from a gospel musical background, and it can be sang in many styles, the main one being a sorrow, nostalgic, mourning style, precisely why it's used for funerals. Don't think it's inappropiate

[cycloneyenna]

Music is very inappropriate for context.

[kaiyno]

@cycloneyenna Why?

[HUSKEYPUPPY]

@kaiyno Ignore cycloneyenna, I think the music works great for the video, very well done.

[kaiyno]

@HUSKEYPUPPY Thanks.

[Cococure83]

Beautiful tribute with great visual aids.

[kaiyno]

@bdf7707 Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, And mortal life shall cease, I shall possess within the veil, A life of joy and peace. When we've been here ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we've first begun. Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.

[oldovergrowmember]

@cycloneyenna it fits, RIP all those fokes.

[HUSKEYPUPPY]

@kaiyno Your welcome.

[kaiyno]

@bangroji God gives free will to understand all things, but not everyone is able to understand everything and at the same time, like to understand love.