Pilot said two chilling last words as plane with 524 plummeted form the sky

The 1985 crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 remains the deadliest air accident in aviation history, after a Boeing 747 collided with a mountain range near Ueno, Gunma, north-west of Tokyo. Investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder, and aviation journalist David Learmount said the transcript was so harrowing it left him in tears. The flight departed Tokyo’s Haneda at 6:12 pm on August 12, bound for Osaka, carrying 509 passengers and a crew of 15, with Captain Masami Takahama as the senior pilot. About 12 minutes after takeoff, an explosion occurred, oxygen masks deployed, and a cabin altitude alarm triggered while the crew requested a return. The article also references Learmount’s account of deep cockpit distress.