All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 60 was a Boeing 727-81 aircraft that crashed on February 4, 1966. All 133 passengers and crew were lost when the aircraft crashed into Tokyo Bay about 10.4 km (6.5 miles) from Tokyo's Haneda International Airport in clear weather conditions while on a night approach. At the time, the death toll set a record for a single-plane incident. It was a mark that would last until 1971.
The plane carried 126 passengers and a...
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All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 60 was a Boeing 727-81 aircraft that crashed on February 4, 1966. All 133 passengers and crew were lost when the aircraft crashed into Tokyo Bay about 10.4 km (6.5 miles) from Tokyo's Haneda International Airport in clear weather conditions while on a night approach. At the time, the death toll set a record for a single-plane incident. It was a mark that would last until 1971.
The plane carried 126 passengers and a crew of seven. Most of the passengers were returning from the annual winter carnival at Chitose, 600 miles north of Tokyo and point of origin for the flight. Flying in perfect weather, the All-Nippon Airway plane was minutes away from Tokyo Airport when its pilot radioed he would land visually without instruments. Then the airliner vanished from radar screens.
Villagers along the shore and the pilot of another plane said they saw flames stab the darkness of the bay at about 7 p.m., the moment the plane was due to land. Then fishermen and...
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