34 years after the crash of Nikko Aircraft August 12, 19:14 on the memorial ceremony
On the 12th, 34 years after the crash of a Nikko jumbo aircraft that killed 520 people, a memorial ceremony was held in Ueno Village, Gunma Prefecture, where the crash occurred, and the bereaved families silently enshrined the victims. It was.
On August 12, 1985, a Japan Airlines jumbo plane carrying a return home from Obon crashed in the mountains of Ueno-mura, Gunma Prefecture, and 520 people, the most common aircraft accident in Japan, were sacrificed.
On the 12th of the 34th year after the accident, in Ueno Village, climbing a memorial service aimed at the `` Osutaka Ridge '' at the crash site early in the morning, handed flowers and offered incense sticks to the graves of those who died of the bereaved. .
Also, in front of the memorial monument "Shoshinno no monument" at the crash site, we were holding hands together and mourning the victims.
From 6 pm, a memorial ceremony was held at the “Holy Memorial Garden” at the foot of the mountain at the fall site, where the bereaved family, locals, and people from Japan Airlines participated. He offered fire to the same 520 candles as the number of victims.
Then, at 6:56 pm, the time of the crash, all of them silently memorialized the victims and prayed for the safety of the sky so that the miserable accident would not be repeated.
34 years have passed since the accident, and the survivors are aging, so the issue is how to convey the memory of the accident to the next generation.