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Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045

1977 CE · United States, North America · Disaster

Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045
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Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045 was a charter flight on January 13, 1977, from Grant County, Washington, to Tokyo, Japan, with a stopover in Anchorage, Alaska. The McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62AF operating the flight crashed during the initial climb shortly after takeoff from Anchorage, in part because the captain, Hugh L.

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