Hutchings, Shawna (2012) Accidents and incidents involving air traffic control error. White Word Publications, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132343370
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On Wednesday, January 31, 2001, Japan Airlines Flight 907, using a Boeing 747-446 Domestic bound from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) in Ota, Tokyo, Japan to Naha International Airport in Naha, Okinawa, Japan and Japan Airlines Flight 958, using a Douglas DC-10-40D bound from Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea to Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, nearly collided over the Suruga Bay near Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture due to human error. Flight information Japan Airlines Flight 907, registration JA8904, was a 747-446 Domestic with 411 passengers and 16 crew making a domestic flight from Tokyo Haneda International Airport to Naha Airport. Japan Airlines Flight 958, registration JA8546, was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 with 237 passengers and 13 crew bound from Gimhae International Airport to Narita International Airport. Flight 907, using an aircraft registered as "JA8904," left Haneda at 3:36 PM. According to the flight plan, JAL907 and JAL958 would pass each other while 2,000 feet apart. Mid - air incident JA8904's TCAS sounded 20 minutes after its departure as the jet climbed towards 39,000 feet . The DC-10, JA8546, cruised at 37,000 feet The mid-air incident occurred as flight attendants began to serve drinks onboard Flight 907. The two planes were on a collision course towards each other. The pilots of both planes had received conflicting instructions from their RJAA and the flight controller at the Tokyo Area Control Center in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Flight 907 , headed by 40 - year - old pilot Makoto Watanabe (i Watanabe Makoto') , followed an order to descend issued by the flight controller while Flight 958 , headed by pilot Tatsuyuki Akazawa (Akazawa Tatsuyuki ") , descended as instructed by the TCAS , meaning that both plans remained on a collision course .The trainee for the aerospace sector , 26 - year - old Hideki Hachitani ( Hachitani Hideki " ) , handled ten other flights at the time of the near miss . Hachitani intended to tell Flight 958 to descend Instead, at 3:54 pm, he told Flight 907 to descend. When the trainee noticed that JAL 958 cruised at a level altitude instead of descending , the trainee asked JAL. 958 to turn right, the message did not get through to the JAL. 958pilot. The trainee's supervisor, JAL 907 to climb. There was no "JAL. 957" in the sky. Yasuko Momii ( JFF Momii Yasuko " ) , ordered "JAL 957" to climb , intending to tell Watanabe avoided disaster when he abruptly forced the aircraft to dive based on a visual judgment , saving a total of 677 people on the two aircraft . collision had occurred , it would have been the deadliest civil aviation accident in history in terms of passenger live, surpassing the Tenerife disaster in which two Boeing 747s collided on a runaway and killed 583 people in 1977.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2022 07:10 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2022 07:10 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3570 |
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