There were 5 very notable passengers that were supposed to be on this flight but ended up missing it. They were the 5 most important people in the James Bond movie franchise. Albert Broccoli (Producer), Harry Saltzman (Producer), Ken Adam (Set Designer), Lewis Gilbert (Director), and Freddie Young (Cinematographer) were in Japan at the time scouting locations for the next James Bond movie “You Only Live Twice”. They were hoping to see a live ninja demonstration while in Tokyo and it wasn’t until they were actually leaving for the airport that they received a last minute invitation to go see one. So they ended up missing their flight to go see the ninja demonstration instead 😊

Can you even imagine being a passenger on that flight and getting an eyeful right next to you of the devastation from CP 402 the night before….. unbeknownst to them they too would meet their own fate just minutes later… what a bizarre set of catastrophes.

One of those accidents that haven`t been documented enough and to me is one of the most shocking in the industry next to the Lauda Air incident. Thank you for doing this.

I remember reading about the disaster. It began with the proverb, "When the sky is blue, Fuji is angry."

The sequence of this accident is that the sudden up-draught of the rotor that had formed on the leeward side of the mountain, caused such a rapid de-acceleration that the main fuel tank ruptured, and passengers and crew in the forward part of the aircraft drowned in the kerosene. With that de-acceleration the engines detached,and continued to operate for a short while on residual fuel. The engines were found some distance from the main wreckage. As the aircraft slewed, the tail fin detached and then a wing detached. The forward section of the aircrafts cockpit and fuselage also broke free. By this time the aircraft had little forward motion, and came down like a sycamore leaf. My father was a BOAC Chief Steward, and had flown this route a week earlier. He knew the Captain and crew. Captain Dobson had been a RAF Lancaster pilot during the war. He was also keen on photography, and this was another reason why he decided to fly close to Mount Fuji. My father also flew on the Vickers VC10, and there was much speculation that a VC10 would have survived the turbulence. A British Caledonian VC10 encountered similar intensity of turbulence over the Andes. It suffered damage, but stayed in one piece. Further inspection by engineers found that the wings were bent upwards about four feet at their tips indicating that the torsion box, where the wings join the fuselage, was distorted.

My Grandfather and Grandmother died in this crash.

MPC Flights, This is awesome! I subscribed because I want to see more!

I've never heard about this disaster - thanx for posting!

There is a cine film taken by a passenger and shows the decompression and break up, carpets flying around. The film was show on newsreels at the time, as was the actual crash.

Turbulence over and in the lee of high ground was known long before. Sir Sefton Brancker ( lost in the R101 airship disaster over the Beauvais Ridge in 1930) had previously experienced such a sudden fall in an airliner beyond the same Beauvais Ridge in N.France that the passengers dented the roof of the cabin. I remember with shock this BOAC crash.

Deliberately flying into an area with forecast turbulence to see the mountain? They did things much differently back then. As a pilot I would certainly object to doing something with that sort of risk.

They would have been fine had they stayed on the upwind side of the mountain. We used to fly Mt. Rainier tours after taking off from SEA in our 737s and Airbuses, and we always knew from which direction the wind was blowing - usually from the west. We always circled from the north through west and then the south before climbing away toward our destinations. It was always smooth and enjoyable. We never fully circled the mountain. Nope.

Super terrifying. I've never heard of this one.

That 707 looks beautiful.

Thanks for this story. Really unaware about it. Pretty sad what happenned

I wrote about this accident many years ago in my book Wreckchasing 2. A few points. This would have been a better video with a more up to date flight sim program. The paint scheme in your video was almost correct, the accident 707 was in the BOAC CUNARD scheme, not the later one depicted in the video. In the cockpit portion the FD/ADI is shown with a blue/black display. The BOAC and later British Airways 707-436 used an all black display instrument. In the inflight breakup the forward fuselage around station 600 also broke away in the descent. One last thing, the RR Conway engines did smoke a bit at takeoff power, but not much at cruise power as shown. Otherwise, not too bad at all with this video. 🙂

Mayday/ACI really missed the boat on this one. They only mention this in ONE epi passingly, during the one about the rudder servo mechanism on the early 737's.

I flew that flight in 1966 from SFO to Japan

Another Excellently Documented Video And Beautiful Graphics ..... Exactly How I Remember The BOAC 707s, Thanks For Doing These Vids .... Only Just Noticed Mine Was The 911th 'Like' ....... Quinny

You just never know if you're going to be on the one that goes down. Such a terrifying thought.

I remember the cine film of this accident, the aircraft fluttered down like a leaf.

Well the captain certainly made it memorable 😢

Excellent video

Nice capturing Bos

I remember seeing a front page photo in the /chicago Tribune of the 707 taxiing past the wreckage of the night before that some one had snapped a photo of.Very Weird.

Very good video, lovely graphics on the seven Oh. What must those passengers have thought looking at the smouldering wreck of that CP DC8? Not knowing their own imminent fate 🙏 apparently a relative mourning on the anniversary at the foot of Fuji was killed by part of a departing jet that fell off. RIP all of those souls 🙏

The 707's always seemed to emit a lot of black smoke from their engines.Water injection on take off apparently to increase thrust.Wouldnt fare well nowadays with emissions awareness.

That's the ghost plane! No pilots there!

The landing gear lever had the great down on the visual of the control panel. 😆

Incredible that it was actually filmed at take off and you can just imagine the conversation about the wreck the night before. Its hard to imagine back to back days with such terrible loss of life. The 707 was such a beautiful plane , but we had yet to learn all the lessons of both building exceptionally engineered aircraft as well as piloting the known and unknown. God rest you in peace and it sounds crass but thank you for your sacrice it was not in vane, never the less trafic. 😢😢😢

There was also the Northwest Airlines B-720 that broke up in turbulance over Florida.

👍👍 @MPC Flights - Nice video! Is this X-Plane 11?

I remember this from when it actually happened. There was a big write up in that issue of Life Magazine which my family received at the time.

There is a video of this flight taking off from Haneda on KZfaq plus photos of the breakup in the air . I flew over Fuji many times departing Narita and Haneda and always kept to 280kts until above FL250 thanks to this incident . Always making sure I wasn’t directly downwind of Fuji. Also a USN A4 was sent to look for this aircraft and experienced 9 G , the aircraft was a right off after landing at Yokohama Naval Air Station.

So, they lied to us when they said turbulence won’t ever bring a plane down. Got it.

Makes you wonder if the plane was doomed from the start with that flight number.

G-APFE had a somewhat different paint scheme from that shown in the simulation. The navy-blue cheat line was narrower around the windows, extending from just above to just below. Between the front door and the cockpit the blue flared downward sharply, wrapping under the nose. In the flared area were the initials B.O.A.C., in gold italic letters. Also, 707-436s (-420), with the Rolls-Royce Conway engines (only 37 built) had cabin turbocompressor humps on all 4 engines; the model used in the simulation has no TC hump on #1 - an arrangement typical of the much more common -320.

Espectácular video muchas gracias super realidad saludo 🎉🛫🙏🙌Bendiciones 🕵️

Nice video ! But May I consider some observations , just to increase the real stuff in your next videos : On the scene of the cockpit at 16 miles to Mount Fugi, the landing gear lever is in the DOWN position, while it should be in the UP position. The RATE OF CLIMB instrument shows a down RATE , maybe because it is said that they descent from 17000 feet to 16000 feet, but the ALTIMETER does not READ any ALTITUDE. And at last, there is NO such Alarm Sound in the B707, like the first one. But yes, there is a FIRE BELL like the second alarm. I flew as a Copilot in the 707 for a Cargo Airline, for more than 3 years. Take care , and happy landings !

The pilots perhaps did not reduce their airspeed, knowing turbulence was an issue around Mt Fuji, to reduce the chance of structural damage on the aircraft.

Brilliant MPC flights fantastic !

My dad was a newly qualified BOAC 707 flight engineer in 1966 … I will ask him about the aftermath and what it was like at the time.

Amazing simulation video quality. Best I’ve seen.

Those leading edge flaps on that 707 version don’t appear correct. They only exist just inboard of the outboard engines, similar to the KC-135.

Xplane 12 is almost a little to real it looks like real life

At least their deaths were not in vain. The Air industry learned from this phenomenon

What's with the black exhaust smoke all the time? That's a big error on your part.

"... flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation using a Boring 707 registration G-APFE"... Make that "Boeing."

Wow, what sim is this? We need a 707 in MSFS!

Awesome ❤❤

When sight seeing goes wrong.

Didn't one of the pax have a camera and filmed it?

Idk but the minute I see my flight is numbered 911 I might back out and find a new one. Obviously in 1966 maybe those numbers didn’t hit the same though.

Had it been a VC-10?

I thought 707s were equipped with Pratt and Whitney JT3D engines.

You know, I've heard that turbulence is not dangerous because planes are designed to withstand turbulence, but I also heard turbulence can damage the airframe and/or lead to loss of control of the plane. Which is it? Is turbulence dangerous or is it NOT dangerous?

Fuji would be covered in snow in March.

It’s a BOEING not a Boring 707! Typo? 😂

Great video! Amazing graphics!

*Flight 911...No wonder!*

Cubby Broccoli had a secret deal with the captain to scout-out potential Ernst Stavro Blofeld volcanoes. Mt Fuji was very close to the nominal flight path and some previous flights most-likely also took the sightseeing route -- depending on the weather, delays and discipline of the captains.

Do Northwest 710 please!!!!

No good deed goes unpunished......Regrettably.....

On the upwind side would have been fine.😅

Sounds like over use of the vertical stabiliser during turbulence similar to the American Airlines A300 crash in New York. Stabiliser detached as did an engine and the jet sadly crashed.

I was at school with the son of the captain

this video does not explain much. long mountain wave, especially in clear skies, without the humidity and without the typical altocumulus lenticularis clouds, can be a trap for a fast moving passenger aircraft, especially the rotors at the lee side of the mountain. the captain showed them mt. fujisan, anyway... remarkable show...

Namaste, to those who learned from experience, so that we could learn from books.

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There's the 2nd plane in Japan that loses his tail.. 747

Nose gear is too far back

Dam...I ain't buyin' it!!! These 707's are tough Hombres, & w/beautiful weather, no others lost before or after due to "Mountain Wave" mumbo jumbo, that ain't what brought this sucker down. Obvious she had previous undetected damage most likely via severe turbulence. I've actually seen MD-80 on approach, turbines @flight idle, & w/few second notice of peril, that had Capt go full gas/flaps, gear up entering severe microburst's downdraft, disappearing into woods, but finally arose. Capt's entire Crew injured as had been checkin' belts, plus 1st Ofcr knew he was dead. It took NTSB 3 yrs to finger out WTF happened, & even then it was result of bar dinner napkin w/entire incident laid out for 'em! Capt had met State Hwy Pickup Driver that had alerted him to danger drivin' aholedly up on 2 wheels to warn him! State Pickup had just been slammed by bottom of downdraft so severe, it picked truck up & slammed it down at 45 degree angle to I-96 so hard it bounced & alit again!! Driver glanced up, and there was airliner where obvious all would be soon dead. For shts & grins, Driver flipped on Beacons, slipped up thru window w/pickup on 2 wheels, while pointing at Capt WTF up there, hopin' for a miracle! Capt's actions so immediate, he saved all 154 souls aboard. As for aircraft, it was different story. Capt made most perfect landing ever, but as slowed, both wingtips scaped along runway as had 5 breaks in main wingspar! While pullin' Oak Limbs from belly, Capt arrested & cuffed by GRPD for Evidence Tampering, plus Joyriding aircraft. It was at International Airport, so w/o antennas, Capt had no COM w/Tower, had given self clearances for Approach, Landing, Taxi, Approach Concourse, and Park in his spot. 1st Ofcr not operational, so shut down of aircraft was done solo, & by time finished, injured had been removed, and Company deplaned the Passengers as well, so Capt slid down late luggage stairs to check plane, but got arrested instead. Cops was so happy to have pinched such a desperado, Capt dragged in front of his deplaned passengers to terrorize them more up to the proper FAA Standards! Plane was a write-off as exterior pummeled by woods, interior destroyed, and possible salvage of engines flown thru woods questionable. When State Hwy Driver next met Capt, it was several years later at TPA's Pilot's Lounge, after Capt had finally been returned to air. He was so conscientious, he was teachin' what he knew about Windshear, to 3 other Airline Pilots. Only hiccup was, Capt couldn't remember order, or even what his Emergency Actions had been! MDOT Driver that had warned Capt yrs ago said, "Capt, you went full gas/flaps, wheels up, nose down, disappeared w/flat plummet into woods", when Capt growled, "AND HOW IN THE HELL WOULD YOU KNOW THAT"? Silence....but 1st Ofcr suggested release of neck might help. Capt loosened grip, & Driver said, "I have MDOT ID", showin' it to him. Driver's hamburger had just arrived, Waitress tryin' to protect it, but Capt glanced at it, then said, "You look more like a T-Bone Man to me...Waitress can give Hamburger to someone in need", throwing Driver into one of their chairs. Anyways, that's how NTSB got scenario that satisfied ALL unknown parameters of Incident scribed by MDOT Driver on Bar Dinner Napkin. Captain had said all injured healed up somewhat, but longtime friend, Stewardess, & workmate got broke spine, confined to wheelchair, but was made NWA Executive Secretary! After initial reading of NTSB Incident Investigation, they were both there, & while leaving, she pulled Capt down to her, saying, "They weren't there, they didn't have a clue, and Capt, you do know that we all still love you...RIGHT??" Capt said that just broke his heart, so gave her a smile, firm side-hug, & was on his way as nobody would wanna fly with a Capt that cries...RIGHT?? I retired from MDOT last day of 2010, and still drive a pickup, but it's my own!! For re-opening of NTSB Investigation, in 1996, they sent a real Craker-Jack. He followed every clue to ground, especially Investigators coerced NWS to certify Microburst/Windshear impossible, & coerced MDOT to certify No Departmental Equipment anywhere near Incident Scene, even though knew hadn't even checked!! Anyways, there's your example of how much damage an airliner can receive from a windshear in an instant!! The current subject of "Wings over Japan (temporarily)", may be solved by thorough inspection of previous Incidents, repairs, and recorded adventures of subject aircraft!!

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Some people leave this life in terror

I once heard turbulence can never cause a plane crash

Its interesting to compare this with the recent truculence event where one passenger died from a heart attack and it got global coverage. We have become complacent to the risks. Its also interesting to see how attitudes to aircraft wreckage have changed, I recall flying in the 60's (as a young passenger) and it was not uncommon to see aircraft wreckage bulldozed to the side of the runway. Seems unimaginable now.

Flight 911…. 🙄

As a graphite pencil sketch artist I've actually drawn a B.O.A.C Boeing 707

Wrongful pilot

Built by the Rainbow of Diversity and Equity.

Mount Fuji is a sacred mountain whose surroundings should not be violated Since then, no plane has been allowed to fly over it.

Was the aircraft repaired and returned to service ?

Ahhhh! I see the problem. It was a Boeing 😄

Flight 911? That is very superstitious You know. 9/11

that is what hollywood does, its done for cut up on the floor later