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Victim-Richest Crash of All Time: "Something Has Exploded, the Captain of the Flight Screamed in Panic

Summary by Welt
A defective repair in 1978 leads seven years later to the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123. In no accident of civil aviation with a participating aircraft more people were killed.

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A defective repair in 1978 leads seven years later to the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123. In no accident of civil aviation with a participating aircraft more people were killed.

·Dortmund, Germany
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In no single plane crash have more people died than in the crash of flight "JL 123" on 12.08.1985. But Japan has learned from the disaster.

I got hold of a file on the Japan Airlines Jumbo Jet crash, the worst disaster in aviation history. I'll explain how I got hold of it later, but I think of it more as being "entrusted" to me than "obtained." Of course, this is the first time these files have been released to the public...

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Welt broke the news in Dortmund, Germany on Monday, August 11, 2025.
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