Mourners have gathered to recollect the victims of Japan’s deadliest ever airplane crash. Thirty-eight years in the past to the day on Saturday, 520 passengers and crews had been killed when a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crashed right into a mountain ridge in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
On Friday, relations of the victims and others floated memorial lanterns down a river close to the crash website in Ueno Village.
The mourners wrote messages to the victims on the lanterns and prayed for transportation security.
Miyajima Kuniko misplaced her second son, Ken, who was 9 years outdated on the time. She mentioned she hoped her son was watching the floating lantern. She mentioned a lot time has handed that mourners now embrace grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the victims. But she mentioned she desires to proceed providing prayers for protected journey.
On Saturday, the relations and others will head to the crash website on Osutaka Ridge. For the primary time in 4 years, they’ll attend a memorial service to be held within the night on the foot of the mountain.
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Mourners have gathered to recollect the victims of Japan’s deadliest ever airplane crash. Thirty-eight years in the past to the day on Saturday, 520 passengers and crews had been killed when a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crashed right into a mountain ridge in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
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