(Tokyo Suburbs in May)"Jesus then Lifted up his Eyes"
Yesterday, after I posted the day's blog, a news report on the Airbus crash was widely announced in Japan. All the Japanese media took the horrible accident in the opposite side of the globe as the first item to present to the audience.
Anyway, once in 100,000 times of your travelling, you would surely meet a big accident, at least psychologically. But, this time, somebody might have taken your turn by mysterious providence, if you had planned to fly to Paris in this season...
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Although Brazilian and French authorities have yet to release a detailed passenger manifest, the list is expected to read like a roster of European and Brazilian blue-chip companies, whose executives regularly packed the business- and first-class sections of the trans-Atlantic flight.
Most of the passengers were Brazilian and French, authorities said. Other countries with big contingencies include Germany, with 26 passengers. China -- which in March surpassed the U.S. as Brazil's biggest trade partner -- had nine citizens on the jet.
The State Department said two Americans were among the passengers; no names were released, according to the Associated Press.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124390001834874463.html
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It is 1985 that I really felt so close to a jet plane crash accident. One jet plane took off from Tokyo Haneda Airport heading for Osaka Airport in the evening of the midsummer only to end up in a crash onto a mountain terrain some 100Km north west of Tokyo.
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Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a Japan Airlines domestic flight from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to Osaka International Airport (Itami). The Boeing 747-SR46 that made this route, registered JA8119, suffered mechanical failures 12 minutes into flight and 32 minutes later crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, 100 kilometers from Tokyo, on Monday 12 August 1985.
The crash site was on Osutaka Ridge (Osutaka-no-One?), near Mount Osutaka. All 15 crew members and 505 out of 509 passengers died, resulting in a total of 520 deaths and 4 survivors.
It remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123
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I really felt so close to a jet plane crash accident when I heard the news, since I might have been one on board the fatal jumbo jet like so many unlucky employees of major companies one of which I was so familiar with, though one of the survivors was from a town I was so familiar with.
And another alarming shadow of jet-plane accidents was also close recently:
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2009
20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.
6 April: An Indonesian army Fokker-27 crashes on landing near Bandung, West Java, killing 24 people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/2008892.stm
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Whenever I hear a Jet plane accident in Indonesia, I recall the one in Japan.
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Garuda Indonesia Flight 865 was a scheduled-international flight from Fukuoka, Japan, to Jakarta, Indonesia. On June 13, 1996, the aircraft used, a Boeing/McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, rejected take-off after taking off well above take-off speed. The aircraft slid towards a threshold, served fuel line #3 and the landing gear, and burst into flames. Three out of 275 aboard were killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda_Indonesia_Flight_865
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In the above accident, it is said that it was a miracle that only three people lost life in this type of accidents, taking into consideration the dangerous circumstances.
The point is that I actually passed through the airport a day earlier or so then.
(To be continued....)
(Japon équipe abordé le nettoyage de printemps de la Tour Eiffel. The Japan Times today so reported. )
Joh 6:1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.
Joh 6:2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.
Joh 6:3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.
Joh 6:4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
Joh 6:5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?