The really sad thing about the whole thing is that japanese authorities waited like 14 hours to approach the crash site. Yes, they left dozens of passangers badly hurt, and still alive, froze and bleed to death at the top of a mountain for 14 fucking hours.

They also refused help from an american army base near there. Same thing with the Kobe earthquake in 1995, they rejected help from foreign doctors. Japan needs to realize they're not in the Tokugawa era anymore. You are part of the world, like it or not.

Clearly this would have been averted if the Japanese school system taught English better.

Even in death they are stacked on top of one another.

PULL UP
PULL UP

What the fuck do you think I'm doing? If I pull it any harder, it's going to come off.

I'm watching this at an airport. :(

"Thirty-two minutes elapsed from the time of the bulkhead explosion (and cabin decompression at altitude) to the time of the final crash, long enough for some passengers to write farewells to their families."

One of Japan Airline's maintenance managers committed suicide shortly after the crash.

Can't help but think of saucer eyed people in gaudy uniforms shouting at each other on a starship bridge.

www.tailstrike.com has an amazing collection of transcripts. Eg:

Captain Takahama: "Flap set?"
First Officer: "Yes, flap ten"
Captain Takahama: "Nose up....Nose up......Nose up.
Captain Takahama: "Hey, hold the flap....ah, don't lower so much flap.
Flap up, flap up, flap up."
Captain Takahama: "Power, power....flaps."
First Officer: "It is up."
Captain Takahama: "Nose up......Nose up......POWER."
Audio Ground proximity warning system sounded (GPWS)
GPWS: "Pull up..Pull up...Pull up......"

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09.01:56 RDO-1 Tower, we're going down, this is PSA.
09.01:57 TWR Okay, we'll call the equipment for you.
09.01:58 CAM [sound of stall warning]
09.02:04.5 CAM-1
This is it!
Brace yourself!
Mom I love you!
[end of recording]

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The best, is 7 April 1994 - Fedex 705:

http://www.tailstrike.com/070494.htm

JT: Do you, uh, live over in Arkansas, Dave, or...?
DS: Naw, I live in Fisherville.
JT: Aw, Fisherville, great spot.
(Sounds of hammer blows striking pilots.)
AP: Ow!
JT: God!
JT: Oh, ah, shit.
DS: God almighty!
AP: Ow!
JT: What the fuck are you doing?
DS: God, (groan), (groan), God almighty! God, God, God....
JT: Get him, get him, get him
DS: He's going to kill us.
JT: Get him!
DS: Get up, get him!
AP: I can't, God!
UV: STOP! (UNIN) Hold his goddamn...
AC: Sit down, sit down, get back in your seat, this is a real gun, I'll kill ya.
JT: Get him, get him, get him, get him, get him, get him!
AW: bank angle, bank angle...
JT: Get him, get him, get him!
AC: I'm gonna kill you!
AC: Hey, hey! I'll kill ya!
AW: bank angle, bank angle
DS: Get him, get him, get him!
AW: bank angle, bank angle
DS: Yeah, get him!
AW: bank angle, bank angle
JT: Get him, get him, get him, Andy, I got the airplane!
AW: bank angle, bank angle
JT: Get him, Andy, get him!
AW: bank angle, bank angle
(struggling in background)
(overspeed warning -- series of clicks in background)
JT to Center: Center, Center, emergency! Center, emergency!
AW: bank angle, bank angle
JT to Center: Center listen to me! Express 705, I've been wounded, we've had an attempted takeover on board the airplane, give me a vector please, back to Memphis at this time, hurry!

Kamikaze very honorable death.