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| | Encyclopedia: Japan Airlines flight 123 |
 | | About 12 minutes after takeoff, as the aircraft reached cruising altitude over Sagami Bay, its tailplane buckled, shedding 15 feet (5 m) of leading edge and the vertical stabilizer into the sea, depressurizing the cabin, and severing all four of the aircraft's hydraulic lines. |
 | | Sagami Bay (相模湾, Sagami-wan), also known as the Sagami Gulf or Sagami Sea, lies south of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshu, central Japan, with the Miura Peninsula to its east and the Izu Peninsula to its west. |
 | | The cause of the crash according to the offical report published by the Japanese Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission, is as follows: Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission (航空・鉄道事故調査委員会, Koku-tetsudojiko chosa iinkai, ARAIC) is the commission belonging to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Japan), founded in 1974 as Aircraft Accidents Investigation Commission. |
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