A story of Luther’s murder in order to dream of hijacking
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At 11 am on July 23, 1999, a Boeing 747- belonging to Japan’s All Nippon Airways The 400D passenger aircraft (registration number JA8966, delivered to ANA in 1993, 6 years old at the time of the incident, still a new aircraft) is undergoing passenger boarding procedures and pre-takeoff preparations. The aircraft will fly from Flight NH61 from Tokyo Haneda International Airport to New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, Hokkaido (The flight number from Sapporo, Hokkaido to Tokyo is NH60. It was carried by a Boeing 727 on February 4, 1966, when an unexplained crash occurred. In the incident, 133 people on board had no survivors. For details, please refer to the beginning of the "Japanese Air Crash Wave" in 1966, , review of ANA NH60 Flight 2.4 Tokyo Bay Air Crash ). There are 2 crew members, 12 crew members (11 female flight attendants and 1 male cockpit captain) and 503 passengers including 4 babies. Since it is the peak season for tourism in Hokkaido, the flights are almost full.
All Nippon Airways painted Boeing 747-400D airliner
The captain of the NH61 flight was 53 years old and had more than 20,000 hours of experience in airliner operations. His elder brother and younger brother are both passenger aircraft captains, making the Nagashima family a veritable "captain family". Before flying the NH61 flight, the Nagashima captain had just been promoted to the training junior captain and took the captain promotion exam. The deputy head of the training department, can be described as "Official Yunhengtong"), the co-pilot was 34-year-old Koga Kazuyuki, he was undergoing the captain promotion test, and his examiner was the captain Naoyuki Nagashima.
Captain Naoyuki Nagashima
Naoyuki Nagashima: "Everything is ready, everything is normal."
Koga Kazuyuki: "Please give me some advice today."
Naoyuki Nagashima: "Please advise, you are very strong."
Koga Kazuyuki: "Ah, congratulations on your promotion."
Naoyuki Nagashima: "What's wrong, come again (congratulations) ?"
The two of them set up a courtesy and continue their pre-takeoff preparations.
After 11:18, the boarding procedure ended. The crew asked the tower for taxiing permission. With the help of the tractor, the huge Boeing 747 slowly left the apron and taxied to the take-off runway on its own power.
Tokyo Haneda International Airport overlooked
at 11:21, NH61 took off smoothly from Tokyo Haneda International Airport, heading northeast towards Hokkaido.
Two minutes after take-off, that is, at 11:23, the aircraft was still climbing. A young man sitting in the aisle seat on the left side of the fifth row in the right area of the second floor suddenly released his seat belt and got up. , Pull out a kitchen knife with a length of about 20 cm (this Japanese-style kitchen knife for cutting vegetables is very popular with Chinese tourists and is a popular item for shopping groups to Japan to buy), first turn back and sit down The two female flight attendants on the flight attendant seats at the access door at the rear of the second-floor cabin walked away. The flight attendant saw him getting up, thinking he was going to the toilet, and discouraged him:
Scene restoration: the hijacker threatened the flight attendant with a knife
"This passenger, the plane is rising, please don’t Get out of your seat.”
The man ignored the flight attendants’ words, but rushed to them and gestured with the sharp knife in his hand: “Do you know what’s going on? If you don’t want to be killed, take me to the cab quickly.”
"This passenger, it is dangerous here, please calm down, please go back to your seat." Two flight attendants tried to calm the man's emotions, but the effect was counterproductive. The man was emotional and grabbed a flight attendant by the collar Yelled: "Don't you want to live anymore? Take me! Hurry up!"
The remaining flight attendant did not panicChaos, but tried to comfort the other passengers panicking in the cabin. "There is an emergency, please keep calm", then ran to her workstation and picked up the closed-circuit call leading to the cockpit: "Captain, it's not good, a man is coming towards you with a kitchen knife!"
The second view of the JA8966 Boeing 747-400D passenger plane painted by All Nippon Airways painted by our director
After receiving the news, the Captain of Long Island judged that he had suffered a hijacking, and he immediately notified him. The co-pilot made the necessary preparations, "Someone hijacked the plane, hurry up and prepare."
Koga Kazuyuki: "Understood!"
According to the standards of All Nippon Airways (also specified by the World Civil Aviation Organization at the time) In response to the hijacking process, the flight crew first placed the flight map at a location within easy reach (if the hijacker enters the cockpit before taking it, it will lead to unnecessary excessive behavior), and removed the tie (in order to prevent the hijacker from using the tie to do the crew Excessive behavior), then checked the fuel balance on the fuel gauge (to judge where the aircraft can fly the farthest), and finally prepared a few bottles of water (I will try to persuade the hijackers to drink more water so that they can board the trumpet. The purpose of having the opportunity to control them in the bathroom).
After completing these preparations, Captain Nagashima connected to the Tokyo Air Traffic Control Center: "Calling Tokyo Control, an emergency, we encountered a hijacking, this is ANA 61."
is calling the control center At the time, the hijacking man coerced the flight attendant to the cockpit door.
Scene restoration: the hijacker threatened the flight attendant with a knife and knocked on the door of the cab
Hijacker: "Knock on the door!"
Flight attendant: "Okay, okay, Please calm down.”
According to the practice of Japanese Civil Aviation, the cockpit key is owned by the crew in addition to the cockpit chief (crew chief), but the cockpit chief’s station is in the first class of the lower cabin, so the aircraft is hijacked The person can only force the flight attendant to knock on the door.
Hearing a knock on the door, the Captain Long Island ordered the co-pilot to fly the plane. He got up and came to the door and saw the situation outside the door with a cat's eye: The hostile flight attendant knocked on the door while the hijacker shouted: "Quickly Open it for me! Otherwise, I will kill her.”
Seeing that the lives of the flight attendants and passengers outside the door are threatened, the Captain Long Island decided to open the door (at that time, the regulations of the airlines were: the safety of passengers or flight attendants in the cabin is affected Threats, as a last resort, you can put the hijacker into the cockpit). He turned to the co-pilot who was controlling the plane and said, "I'm going to open the door."
Koga Kazuyuki nodded. "Understood!" As soon as the door of
opened, the hijacker pushed aside the hostage flight attendant, screamed and rushed into the cockpit with a knife, "Know what's going on! Do what I said!"
Scene restoration: The hijacker who rushed into the cockpit and threatened the captain
Naoyuki Nagashima: "I see, please calm down."
It is 11:33 Min, the 12th minute after takeoff.
"Go to Yokosuka first!" The hijacker looked around the cockpit with a fresh face and said his first request.
"Okay", the Captain Nagashima put on the headset (so that he can talk to the air traffic control center at any time), "All Nippon Airways 61 heading request is changed to 045, to Yokosuka."
Tokyo Air Traffic Control Center: " Yes, All Nippon Airways 61, we will guide you to Yokosuka.”
The hijacker was satisfied after confirming the direction of the plane, and looked at the equipment in the cockpit with a fresh look, and then said the second A request: "Drop the altitude to 3000 feet (about 900 meters)!"
"Oh? 3000 feet?" Captain Long Island was very surprised by this request.
"Descent to 3000 feet! Hurry up!" The hijacker was obviously impatient.
"I see, ANA 61 descended to 3000 feet." Captain Long Island had no choice but to obey the order, and the aircraft began to descend from the cruise altitude of 33000 feet.
Tokyo is not far from Yokosuka, and it flew to Yokosuka airspace after more than ten minutes. The captain told the hijacker: "I will be over Yokosuka soon."
Hijacker: "Then go (Izu) Big Island, go to Big Island!"
Nagashima Naozhi: "I know."
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At this time, the passengers in the lower cabin where the hijacking has occurred vaguely saw Tokyo Bay and Mount Fuji through the porthole (the two places just happened to be able to get from the plane Seen from the left and right side windows of the cabin), the cabin makes a sound of confusion from time to time. If you fly to Hokkaido, you will never see the sea and Mount Fuji.
Passenger A: "Oh, why can you see the sea?"
Passenger B: "It seems to be towards Izu Oshima."
Passenger C: "Hey, what's the matter? Why did I see Mount Fuji?”
Passenger Ding: “This plane did not go to Hokkaido!” In the cockpit of
, the hijacker turned around and said viciously to the co-pilot Kazuyuki Koga: “You are too It's an eyesore. Get out!"
The Koga co-pilot, sweating profusely, looked at Captain Nagashima for help: "Captain!"
Changdao Zhizhi: "No way."
Koga Kazuyuki: "But—"
Naoyuki Nagashima: "You go out first."
Hijacker: "Go, get out! Hurry up!"
Take advantage of the hijacking The pilot pushed the co-pilot out of the neutral position of the cockpit, and Captain Long Island rushed to report to the ground: "The co-pilot is out of the cockpit and committed alone. There is only a chopper."
Hijacker: "Get out! "
Koga Kazuyuki: "Please wait a minute, wait a minute! Hey——hey——" (with the knock on the door outside the cockpit)
The co-pilot of Koga was pushed and shoved by the hijacker The scene of driving out of the cockpit was seen by the passengers in the second-floor cabin, and the panic became more intense.
Passenger E: "Well, is the plane okay?"
Koga Kazuyuki: "Now the captain is trying to persuade the prisoner. Please rest assured, it's okay."
returned to the cockpit, The hijacker took the seat of the co-pilot and pointed the tip of the knife at Captain Long Island.
"I think it would be better to raise the altitude a little bit. The big island is so cloudy and invisible. Can't the altitude be raised a little bit? Can I raise it by 1,000 feet?" Captain Nagashima was very kind The hijacker suggested that because flying at an altitude of 900 meters is very dangerous for a giant passenger aircraft such as a Boeing 747, it may collide with a small aircraft (such as a helicopter) in the airspace at any time.
Scene restoration: The captain has always been kind to the hijacker, trying to persuade him to agree to increase the height
"No increase!" The hijacker rudely rejected the captain's suggestion. While grabbing the joystick in front of the co-pilot seat with excitement, the hijacker's exuberant howl came from the cockpit. Captain Nagashima, who said badly, quickly tightened the joystick in his hand (the pilot and co-pilot joysticks of the Boeing 747 airliner are linked and cannot be operated separately) to avoidThe hijackers performed stupid things indiscriminately and caused the consequences of the crash.
Scene restoration: Captain Long Island desperately held the joystick to prevent the hijacker from seizing control
The highly energetic hijacker randomly flipped the control stick of the co-pilot, and the Long Island aircraft Chang Ze desperately grabbed his own joystick to prevent the hijacker from seizing control of the plane. The fight between the two for piloting rights caused the NH61 flight to sway and sway slightly in the air, and the passengers in the cabin cried out one after another.
Nagashima Naozhi: "We have reached the sky over the (Izu) Big Island!"
Captain Long Island’s words made the hijackers temporarily stop tossing about the joystick, and the control of the aircraft returned to Long Island. In the hands of the captain.
Hijacker: "Turn, go to Yokota!"
Naozhi Long Island: "I see."
In order to prevent the hijacker from stealing control of the plane with him again, Captain Long Island quietly opened He used the autopilot (the joystick in the autopilot state is controlled by a computer and cannot be moved by manpower), and set the airspeed and altitude to Yokota. This is his last operation of the aircraft, and finally saved an aircraft. Human life.
and the cockpit are separated by a door in the second-floor cabin. Under the organization of the flight attendants, the women, children, and children in the second-floor cabin are transferred to the first-floor cabin in an organized manner, leaving only about 40 young people behind. Adult male passengers, the remaining people were also transferred to the rear seats of the second-story cabin. At the same time, the cockpit commander in the first-floor cabin took a few off-duty ANA flight crews who boarded the NH61 flight as passengers (including the 53-year-old All Nippon Airways captain Junji Yamauchi and one on the NH61 flight. The female cockpit commander who flew other flights to Hokkaido came outside the cockpit door at the front of the second-floor cabin and discussed plans to attack the cockpit.
Scene restoration: outside the cockpit, the co-pilot and cockpit chief who are preparing to discuss the storming cockpit plan, the out-of-work Junji Yamauchi and the unknown female cockpit chief
cockpit chief : "What do you do next?"
Koga Kazuyuki: "The prisoner has a knife on his body. If I continue to stimulate the prisoner, I'm afraid—"
The female cockpit captain who is not working: "What are you rubbing against? If a crash occurs at this height, the residential area will be dangerous.”
Junji Yamauchi: “I can come to help you, but I can only take the opportunity to control the prisoner.”
古贺和幸: "But if it irritates the prisoner again -"
The female cockpit captain who is not on duty: "It is already an emergency! Should I trust the Captain Long Island inside or prepare for other methods, this time I need to make a decision!"
In the cockpit, Captain Long Island is still trying to persuade the hijacker to agree to ascend. "Flying so low, if the plane crashes, it will be troublesome."
However, the hijacker who kept playing with the joystick but found that the plane was unresponsive, believed that the captain made a mess and prevented him from "turning on the dust plane." , He viciously threatened Captain Long Island: "Let me control the plane!"
"Let you control it-if a small plane flies over, there is a danger of collision. You can see the mountains over there. It would be very dangerous if you hit it."
"Ah-yeah -"
The hijacker, who was so embarrassed and furious, hit Captain Long Island with a knife, and Captain Long Island suddenly fell into a pool of blood.
At 11:54, Captain Long Island was stabbed.
Scene restoration: At 11:54, Captain Nagashima was stabbed.
But because he had set up the autopilot program before, the NH61 flight was still flying smoothly. The captain was disabled and out of control. However, the hijacker, who wanted to control the plane, blindly pressed the switch one by one, and the autopilot was accidentally disarmed. Then the plane dropped from 900 meters to about 300 meters under the "control" of the hijacker. Meters, below is the densely populated Tokyo city. People outside the cockpit door are determined not to wait any longer and must attack the cockpit immediately.
Several male passengers who could not sit still began to mobilize before the war:
Passenger: "Isn’t he just a knife? Let’s catch him!"
Passenger G: "Yes, if we work together, we will definitely be able to overcome the difficulties!"
Junji Yamauchi: "Understood, everyone rushed in with me! Please prepare your tie and belt, and please help us tie the prisoner after entering. "
Passenger Xin: "Okay! I can get through the trouble!"
Shanuchi Junji reached out to the cockpit commander: "Give me the key."
Cockpit commander: "But no Captain’s permission——"
The female cockpit captain who is not on duty: "What are you talking about, if it crashes, there will be nothing, the captain! Get it out!"
山内纯Two: "I am also the captain, and I will bear all the responsibilities!"
Cockpit Captain: "Okay, I see." Then he handed over the keys.
At this time, Junji Uchiyama heard the ground proximity warning sound in the cockpit through the cockpit door, and was shocked. This meant that the plane's flying altitude was less than 300 meters at this time, "It's too late! Start hitting the door right away!" Uchiyama Junji issued an "offensive" command.
Scene restoration: Captain Uchiyama and Copilot Koga who forcibly rushed into the cockpit, Koga controlled the hijacker, Uchiyama took over the control of the aircraft
It’s urgent, so I can’t use it. I have the key (several keychains are on one keychain. After finding the lock and opening the door, it’s better to hit it simply and rudely. Moreover, the cockpit door was not so strong at the time.) Captain Junji Uchiyama, Kazuyuki Koga The co-pilot and the cockpit captain collided repeatedly, and the cockpit door was knocked open. Junji Uchiyama was the first to rush into the cockpit and saw Captain Naoyuki Nagashima who was lying on the captain’s seat and did not know his life. The long situation immediately grasped the captain's joystick, while the co-pilot Kaga Koga and the cockpit captain stubbornly held the hijacker and dragged off the co-pilot seat, followed by several flight attendants and strong men. The male passengers swarmed and dragged the hijacker out of the cockpit and tied his limbs to the seat of the cabin with a tie and belt. (In addition to Junji Uchiyama, Kazuka Koga, the cockpit chief, there are also 3 flight attendants and 2 male passengers participated in the operation to subdue the hijacker). At this time, the hijacker was still restless, and yelled hysterically: "Let go of me! I want to (drive the plane) pass under the Rainbow Bridge (Tokyo Bay Bridge)! Get out! Let go of me!"
Scene restoration: the hijacker who was dragged out of the cockpit by the crowd and tied up with a tie
Scene restoration: Captain Uchiyama urgently manipulated the airliner at a height of only 200 meters above the ground to restart Climbing
Under the strenuous pull rod of Junji Neishan, the NH61 flight was finally pulled up at an altitude of 200 meters above the ground, but the aircraft stalled due to excessive force, which caused the aircraft to raise the angle too large. Fortunately, at this critical juncture , The throttle stick "automatically" pushes to the maximum gear with the help of gods, and the aircraft with sufficient power recovers from the stalled state and starts to climb again. This is the automatic program set by Captain Naoyuki Nagashima before his death.
After the plane re-climbed to the cruising altitude and entered the level flight autopilot state, a passenger serving as a medical saint walked into the cockpit and confirmed that the captain Naozhi Nagashima had no vital signs, and then the captain’s body was removed from the pilot. cabin. First officer Kazuyuki Koga sat on the captain’s seat with the captain’s blood and took over control of the aircraft, while Junji Uchiyama sat in the seat of the copilot and was responsible for communicating with the ground. (Although Junji Uchiyama is the captain, Because he was not on duty at the time and was not a crew member of Flight NH61, he had to surrender control of the aircraft after the emergency was lifted) and declared to the cabin that the aircraft was safe through the in-flight broadcast on behalf of the Long Island captain who had died.
"Passengers, this is the captain's announcement. I am the captain. The plane was hijacked, but now the prisoner has been taken under control. Now we return to Haneda Airport and the plane can land safely."
As soon as the voice fell, there was applause, cheers and crying in the cabinululation.
The scene is restored: the passenger weeping with joy after finally knowing that it is safe
At 12:14, All Nippon Airways NH61 flight JA8966 Boeing 747-400D passenger plane landed safely in Tokyo Haneda International At the airport, all 503 passengers and 13 crew members/crew members, including the hijacker, survived, except for the captain Naozhi Nagashima who died in the service. At 12:35, the police took the hijacker away from the plane.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department's investigation, the hijacker was named Yuji Nishizawa. He was 29 years old at the time. He was shown as a "good boy" since he was a child and a graduate of National Hitotsubashi University. During college, although he studied business, he loved railway transportation and later became obsessed with aviation. His classmates called him an "aircraft mad". When he graduated from university, he wanted to find a job in an airline, but failed to apply for three times (Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways) and had to work for a railway transportation company. Three years ago, he quit his job automatically because he was dissatisfied with his transportation job, and has been at home ever since. After Nishizawa's resignation, he not only often traveled by plane, but was also fascinated by flight simulation games. Over time, he finally mixed the realm of the game with reality. He once claimed that he has accumulated "rich experience" through flight simulation games, so he is convinced that he can actually fly an airplane. He also said that if there is a chance, he must fly a large plane across the Hongqiao and do some twisting and swinging flight.
Tokyo Rainbow Bridge that Yuji Nishizawa wanted to cross by plane
In order to achieve the purpose of hijacking the plane, Yuji Nishizawa went through careful planning and testing. According to an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department, Nishizawa used the opportunity of working as a temporary worker at Haneda Airport twice to conduct a detailed investigation on the structure of Haneda Airport and the way of baggage consignment, and finally found that there was a blind spot in safety. On June 19 this year, he also solemnly wrote a letter to the Haneda Airport Office of the Ministry of Transport, the Haneda Airport Police Station and the three major Japanese airlines with his real name and surname, warning of the safety of Haneda Airport. He pointed out in the letter that there are 4 stairs connecting the baggage claim area on the first floor to the departure lounge on the second floor. Although there is a sign of "no way" at the stairway, the passengers who actually arrive and those waiting for departure Passengers can pass through these stairs unimpeded. If no countermeasures are taken, "no matter what kind of weapon can be brought into the cabin without any inspection." At the same time, he also sent the same e-mail to major news organizations in Tokyo. After receiving this letter, the Ministry of Transport’s airport office has negotiated with airlines and airport building management companies, but has not taken any countermeasures. On July 19, Nishizawa called again to confirm the improvement of airport security issues, but the answer was "continuing research." In this case, Nishizawa purchased a round-trip ticket from Haneda to Osaka on July 22 and a ticket from Haneda to Sapporo on the same day to prove that the murder weapon could be brought into the plane through these stairs, and he was determined to hijack the plane that day. On the evening of the 21st, Nishizawa confirmed the weather forecast and felt that the weather on the 22nd was not suitable for him to fly the plane, so he postponed the hijacking operation and changed it to the 23rd.
On the 23rd, Nishizawa arrived at the airport early in the morning. He first went through the check-in procedures to Osaka and Hokkaido at different counters, and checked the suitcase with the knife hidden, and then went to the stairs connecting the baggage claim area on the first floor and the departure lounge on the second floor to check and confirm this. There are indeed neither surveillance devices nor guards by security personnel. After arriving in Osaka by JAL flight JAL101, Nishizawa made a public phone call at the airport to confirm the weather conditions in the Tokyo area, and checked the suitcase with a knife again, and then returned to Haneda by JAL flight JAL102, which departed at 8:55. airport. After arriving at Haneda Airport, he took out his suitcase and went to the toilet to tear off the consignment label. Then he walked through unsupervised stairs to the second-floor terminal. Without any inspection, he put the suitcase with the murder weapon. Brought in the ANA flight to Hokkaido at 11:23. After
was arrested by the police, Yuji Nishizawa was still in a state of extreme excitement. His answer to the police interrogation was incoherent. He said: "I want to try driving under the Hongqiao cable-stayed bridge in Tokyo, and then somersault."
April 7, 2005, after the hijacking of ANA Flight NH61 Five years and eight months later, the Tokyo District Court found hijacking, homicide, and illegalYuji Nishizawa was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of holding a knife.
JA8966 aircraft performance data
Model: Boeing 747-4D00
Designer: Boeing Aircraft Company
Crew: 2 crew + 568 crew (typical)
Length: 70.67 meters
Wingspan: 64.44 meters
Height: 19.41 meters
Empty weight: 178756 kg
Maximum take-off weight: 418651 kg
Engine: Four Rolls-Royce RB211-524 turbofan engines with a single thrust of 258 kN
Economic cruising speed: 957 kilometers per hour
Maximum load range: 10,000 kilometers
