Things could be worse...or:
Why so many of those countries' pilots are expatriates:
TOKYO, Feb. 13 1982— Investigators into the crash of a Japan Air Lines DC-8
in which 24 people died on Tuesday say there was a struggle in the cockpit only moments
before the jetliner fell into Tokyo Bay 300 yards short of the main runway at Haneda Airport.
It was also reported that the captain had been grounded for a year because of a psychosomatic illness.
The police, pointing to pilot error as the cause of the accident, said that one of the airliner's
four jet engines was put into reverse thrust just before the crash, causing the plane to lose altitude sharply.
The plane was carrying 174 people, including a crew of 8.
The police have made no formal statement on responsibility for the extraordinary action,
nor did Japan Air Lines. But Japanese newspapers quoted unidentified officials as saying
that Capt. Seiji Katagiri, 35 years old, put the engine into reverse with a control lever.
Speaking of the struggle, the Kyodo News Agency said that the flight engineer,
Yoshimi Ozaki, 48, ''stood up to seize the captain.''
The police said that the co-pilot, Yoshifumi Ishikawa, 33, tried to pull back on the
controls to bring the plane out of a nose-dive but was unable to do so.
They did not say why. Mental State Is Questioned
The Japanese press suggested that the pilot lost his senses. The Japan Times said a voice
recording showed that ''Captain Katagiri was in an abnormal state, crying out loud in the cockpit''
on the approach as the plane was still some distance from the airport.
From eyewitnesses, apparently cappie Seiji Katagiri was the first to embark on a rescue boat...
He reportedly claimed to rescuers that he was an office worker to avoid detection.

Capt. Seiji Katagiri, 35, (second from left) the pilot of last Tuesday’s crashed Japan Air Lines DC-8,
sits in an airport bus on route to the airport hotel after he was rescued with other survivors.
Not even getting into Silkair 185 and cover up...
an insult to Airbus
Airbus is a vast bureaucracy primarily interested in self preservation,
as their Mulhouse crash stealing and falsification of the flight recorders prove.
Same with the Silk Air crash when Boeing retracted their lawsuit on the crew's "suicide"
to avoid investigation of their yaw dampers' hard overs...I remember coming on board
737 with the outgoing crews white as sheet due to getting almost inverted...which was
an "unmentionable" item for the logbook...