Japan Airlines Flight 2 crash

Japan Airlines Flight 2

Japan Airlines Flight 2 was a flight that was piloted by Captain Kohei Asoh on November 22, 1968. The DC-8 plane was scheduled to land at San Francisco International Airport but due to heavy fog and other factors, Asoh mistakenly landed the plane in the waters of San Francisco Bay, two and a half miles short of the runway.^[2][3] None of the 96 passengers or 11 crew were injured in the mishap. The plane was recovered 55 hours after the incident.^[4] It was transported to San Francisco International Airport on a barge.^[5] United Airlines refurbished the aircraft for service and returned the aircraft to JAL, Mar 31, 1969.^[4] The flight is still in operation today and it still flies from Tokyo (Haneda) to San Francisco using a Boeing 777 instead of a Douglas DC8; the flight previously operated from Narita up until October 2010.

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