All Nippon Airways - Incidents and Accidents

Incidents and Accidents

• ANA's first crash occurred in 1958, when a Douglas DC-3 JA5045 operating as Flight 025, crashed.
• In 1958, dynamite was planted in a Douglas DC-3 by Akira Emoto, a candy salesman, as part of a suicide plan. Emoto killed himself by leaping from the aircraft and the bombs failed to detonate.
• In 1960, Douglas DC-3 JA5018, was lost.
• On 12 June 1961, Vickers Viscount G-APKJ was damaged beyond economic repair when the starboard undercarriage collapsed following a heavy landing at Osaka Itami Airport.
• On 19 November 1962, Vickers Viscount JA8202 crashed at Nagoya while on a training flight, killing all four people on board.
• On 4 February 1966, Flight 60, operated by Boeing 727 JA8302 was landing at Tokyo Haneda Airport when it crashed into Tokyo Bay, with the loss of all 133 passengers and crew.
• On November 13, 1966, Flight 533, a YS-11 crashed in Matsuyama. All 50 aboard the aircraft were killed.
• On July 30, 1971, Flight 58, a Boeing 727, registration JA8329, collided with a JASDF F-86 Sabre fighter stationed at Matsushima Air Base.
• On June 22, 1995 a man who called himself "Fumio Kujimi" and registered for an ANA flight as "Saburo Kobayashi", hijacked an ANA flight after it took off from Tokyo. The plane landed in Hokkaidō, and police stormed the aircraft, arresting the hijacker. Police stated that the hijacker was 53-year-old Fujio Kutsumi; he had demanded for the release of Shoko Asahara. The hijacking incident lasted for 16 hours.
• In 1999, a man hijacked Flight 61 and killed the captain. He was subdued by other crew members, and no passengers or other crew were killed or injured.
• On September 6, 2011, Flight 140, an All Nippon 737-700 traveling from Naha to Tokyo with 117 passengers and crew, flipped almost 180 degrees in midair and rapidly descended as the First Officer accidentally hit the rudder trim knob lock button instead of the door unlock button as the captain returned from the lavatory. The First Officer eventually gained control back and leveled off the plane. There were minor injuries to two flight attendants and six passengers became violently airsick.