Source: International Business Times
Bereaved family members of victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines crash that killed 520 people pray in front of a memorial altar on Mount Osutaka AFP Family members of victims in the world's deadliest single-aircraft accident hiked Tuesday to the mountainous site in Japan where the plane went down, as the country marked 40 years since the tragedy that killed 520 people. On August 12, 1985, the doomed Boeing 747 was around 40 minutes into an hour-long flight from Tokyo to Osaka, when it crashed into a mountain about 120 kilometres (75 miles) northwest of the capital. Tuesday saw hundreds of people -- including bereaved families and friends -- hike the trails up to the cenotaph erected on Osutaka Mountain Ridge in the Gunma region where the jet crashed.
