2001 Japan Airlines Mid-air Incident

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On January 31, 2001, Japan Airlines Flight 907, a Boeing 747-400 en route from Haneda Airport, Japan, to Naha Airport, Okinawa, narrowly avoided a mid-air collision with Japan Airlines Flight 958, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 en route from Gimhae International Airport, South Korea, to Narita International Airport, Japan. The event became known in Japan as the Japan Airlines near miss incident above Suruga Bay (日本航空機駿河湾上空ニアミス事故 Nihonkōkūki surugawan jōkū niamisu jiko). If the planes actually collided that day, the incident would likely have killed all 677 people on board the two aircraft, surpassing the Tenerife airport disaster in 1977 to become the deadliest aviation accident in history.
The Boeing 747-446 Domestic, registration JA8904, was operating flight 907 from Tokyo Haneda International Airport to Naha Airport with 411 passengers and 16 crew. The flight departed Haneda airport at 15:36 local time. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40, registration JA8546, was operating flight 958 from Gimhae International Airport to Narita International Airport with 237 passengers and 13 crew. According to the flight plan, both aircraft were supposed to pass each other while 2,000 feet apart.

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