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    Five Fatal Flaws of Flt123
    Five Fatal Flaws of Flt123
    Five Fatal Flaws of Flt123
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    Five Fatal Flaws of Flt123

    By Marc Hagan

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    In 1985, an unnamed airline in the Far East, suffered a cataclysmic mechanical malfunction. With all 4 hydraulic systems destroyed, this documentary accounts for the step by step events in the last 32 minutes of the flight that is forever labeled as the worst single aircraft accident; to this day.

    It is tainted with the scandal of unpunished crimes by executives and officials who escaped facing the responsibilities for the deaths of 520 people.

    The Five Fatal Flaws were the increasingly deadly points of tangible and actionable mistakes, like under water mines, that brought a great airliner, with passenger and crew down - and out; on a joyous festival eve.

    It carries the shameful appellation of The World's Worst Single Aircraft Disaster.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarc Hagan
    Release dateMay 19, 2012
    ISBN9781476060378
    Five Fatal Flaws of Flt123
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    Marc Hagan

    Marc Hagan has spent more than 40 years in broadcasting; primarily radio. From production to sales, to copywriting, on-air announcing, Program Director, Music Director, General Manager, and Owner, he progressively excelled at each phase. Gaining his ‘chops’, he produced and wrote a 4-hour comedy morning show in Phoenix; after discharge from 6 years with the Air Force. Subsequently he produced the Dick Van Dyke radio show, was invited to write for NBC’s Laugh-in, and later moved on to ‘step-stone’ 7 radio stations. Eventually landing as Producer at San Francisco’s ABC affiliate; KGO, where he achieved Chief Producer and Executive Production Director. In 1972 he was invited to join a Japanese radio network, and moved to Japan. He was host of a nationwide program based on the Billboard Music charts, and in the course of three years accomplished interviews with 136, first-level, musical celebrities on a program that became #1 throughout the country. Spending 28 years in Japan, he not only worked on radio and TV, but also wrote columns for newspapers and magazines as well as commercial voice-over and copy writing. He eventually created and put on the air Tokyo’s first English-language radio station, targeted at the foreign community and traveler to this mystifying country. Currently, for Japan’s largest cable system, he represents radio stations all over the world which are delivered live via undersea fiber cable, for dissemination to every corner of the country. As an avocation, he became an accomplished theater sound designer with over 100 productions on his resume’. Helping other disassociated companies, he assisted as Communications Director for a car parking technology, an alternative energy start-up, and currently volunteers at a local grade school. One day after the manuscript was mounted in the Smashwords library, this response was received from a noted Motion Picture producer in Japan: Enjoyed reading your documentary. It IS AWEsome!! Jun ----- Original Message ----- From: Jun Takahashi Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 11:05 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Congrats. His smoldering keyboard resides in Sausalito, at the north anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge. In his ‘literary quiver’, there are 3 manuscripts waiting for the e-Book meatgrinder.

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      Five Fatal Flaws of Flt123 - Marc Hagan

      Five Fatal Flaws of Flt#123

      Marc Hagan

      Copyright 2012 by Marc Hagan

      Smashwords Edition

      THE FIVE FATAL FLAWS OF FLT#123 by Marc Hagan

      CHAPTER ONE

      The fate of this doomed flight began more than half a decade earlier; 400 kilometer from here, and at the same destination for which they were all headed.

      The sky was still bright this mid-August evening as thousands of families crowded at the airport for a journey many would make successfully; home to honor the ancestors who had passed on before. Each carried, beyond luggage, a gaily wrapped gift for the home folks.

      Passengers board and move to the rear, unaware of the hidden scar just beyond the panel by the aft restrooms. The heavy, forward-facing dish-like, steel aft, pressure bulkhead, was weary, scarred and severely fatigued.

      The magnificent 747SR (short Range) had received large-scale repairs at the company maintenance hanger 7 years prior, after it experienced an acute tail-hit landing on the runway at their very destination airport.

      Fatal Flaw #2 occurred during the repairs at that time. The bulkhead was seriously cracked in the hard tail hit. Resultant investigation disclosed the riveted joint was incorrectly repaired by the airline company, under supervision of the engineering staff from Boeing, the craft’s manufacturer.

      Fatefully, the repair was not conducted in accordance to company procedure; and eventually passed-on by company inspectors. Too, it was not inspected prior to tonight’s flight.

      This evening, instead of a single plate riveted over the crack, two were in place dividing the force load against the injured bulkhead; reducing resistance to metal fatigue by 70%. Stemming from that sequence, it compiled a history of 18,319 pressurization cycles (flights). That equals 146 per month for 7 years hence.

      On this side of the wall, passengers boarded and fussed over their seating assignment. The airliner was virtually full to brimming, and most of the passengers were clad in only the lightest of clothes in anticipation of a clammy mid-summer evening.

      Among such travelers were an off duty flight attendant; a 12 year old girl, traveling with her parents and sister; and a mother with her 8 year old daughter; all off to visit family at their ancestral homes. Indeed, all travelers on Flt#123 were on this pilgrimage as the annual festival prescribed.

      Fatal Judgment #3 was cramming 524 passenger and crew plus luggage into a single plane that usually seats 350 (now configured to accommodate the increase); instead of employing two aircraft. Easily more than 200 were turned away during this busy season.

      The ill-fated plane had to maneuver amid the 6pm departure rush.

      Flight 123 labored to the runway with it’s overload of people and their extra tonnage of luggage, and took off at 6:12, sailing out over the bay, 12 minutes behind schedule. 509 souls and 15 crew, were beginning the 400 kilometers to their

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