Andrew Chamings13:33, Jul 20 2021
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Japan Airlines Flight 2 in the water just short of San Francisco International Airport runway.
There were 96 passengers and 11 crew on Japan Air Lines Flight 2, flying from Tokyo to San Francisco on November 22, 1968. The flight was going very smoothly, until it wasn t. As the DC-8 plane, named Shiga by the airline, finished its descent into the foggy bay, pilot Kohei Asoh realised his plane had dropped way too far, way too soon. We came alongside the mountains and went into thick fog, passenger Walter Dunbar recalled. I was sitting in the aft part of the plane. The next thing I knew, we were about one foot off the water. She hit, skipped twice, then nose up.
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