By Wayne Rosenkrans | From Tokyo
AeroSafety World, November 2009
More than 74,000 visitors have toured the Japan Airlines (JAL) Safety Promotion Center since its opening in April 2006. The proportion from outside the company exceeds 40 percent, says Yutaka Kanasaki, director of the museum-like facility near Tokyo International Airport, Haneda. Many are fascinated by the concept, especially the reasoning behind JAL’s decision to prominently recount the story known throughout Japan as the “Osutaka Mountain accident.” On an east-west ridge of this mountain 24 years ago, this crash of a Boeing 747SR-100 resulted in more loss of life than in any single-airliner accident in history.1
The center is designed, foremost, to provide safety awareness and education for th…
