When a series of unexpected events, involving in aviation's worst accidents, suddenly appear as ghostly apparitions all across the globe, it is up to Mystery Inc. to find out why these events are happening.
But, they also have to deal with their pa...
About two to three days after Überlingen, the Mystery Inc. gang soon arrived in Tokyo's Haneda International Airport, via Singapore Airlines.
Tokyo International Airport (東京国際空港? TōkyōKokusaiKūkō), commonly known as Haneda Airport, or Tokyo Haneda Airport is one of the two primary airports that serve the Greater Tokyo Area, and is the primary base of Japan's two major domestic airlines, Japan Airlines (Terminal1) and All Nippon Airways (Terminal2), as well as Air Do, Skymark Airlines, Solaseed Air, and StarFlyer. It is located in Ōta, Tokyo, 14 kilometres (8.7mi) south of Tokyo Station.
Haneda was the primary international airport serving Tokyo until 1978; from 1978 to 2010, Haneda handled almost all domestic flights to and from Tokyo as well as "scheduledcharter" flights to a small number of major cities in East Asia, while Narita International Airport handled the vast majority of international flights. In 2010, a dedicated international terminal was opened at Haneda in conjunction with the completion of a fourth runway, allowing long-haul flights during night-time hours. Haneda opened up to long-haul service during the daytime in March 2014, with carriers offering nonstop service to 25 cities in 17 countries. The Japanese government is currently encouraging the use of Haneda for premium business routes and the use of Narita for leisure routes and by low-cost carriers.
Haneda handled 75,316,718 passengers in 2015; by passenger throughput, it was the third busiest airport in Asia and the fifth busiest in the world, after Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Beijing Capital International Airport (Asia'sbusiest), Dubai International Airport, and O'Hare International Airport. It is able to handle 90 million passengers per year following its expansion in 2010. With Haneda and Narita combined Tokyo has the third busiest city airport system in the world, after London and New York City.
Once the gang had gotten a taxi out of Tokyo, they had driven away from the bustling of the city, and had soon arrived down at Mount Osutaka. After paying the taxi driver, the gang walked up to the memorial of the Japan 747 that had crashed here on August 12, 1985.
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This very memorial was the one directed here to pay tribute to the 520 passengers and crew that had died on the 747 when it crashed into the mountain.
Japan Airlines Flight 123 (日本航空123便? Nihonkōkū123Bin) was a scheduled domestic Japan Airlines passenger flight from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to Osaka International Airport, Japan. On Monday, August 12, 1985, a Boeing 747SR operating this route suffered an explosive decompression 12 minutes into the flight and, 32 minutes later, crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, 100 kilometres (62miles) from Tokyo. The crash site was on Osutaka Ridge (御巣鷹の尾根? Osutaka-no-One), near Mount Osutaka.
The explosive decompression was caused by a faulty repair performed by Boeing after a tailstrike incident during a landing seven years earlier. A doubler plate on the rear bulkhead of the plane was improperly repaired, compromising the plane's airworthiness. Cabin pressurization continued to expand and contract the improperly repaired bulkhead until the day of the accident, when the faulty repair finally failed, causing the explosive decompression that ripped off a large portion of the tail and caused the loss of hydraulic controls to the entire plane.
