Crash survivor sees Moses Lake as second home
The remains of the Japan Air Lines CV-880 passenger jet that crashed at the Grant County International Airport during takeoff on June 24, 1969. Three of the five crew members were killed in the accident.
Port of Moses Lake/courtesy photo
The remains of the Japan Air Lines CV-880 passenger jet that crashed at the Grant County International Airport during takeoff on June 24, 1969. Three of the five crew members were killed in the accident.
Port of Moses Lake/courtesy photo
Flight engineer Nobuhiro Uematsu, who was injured in a 1969 crash of a Japan Air Line training flight in Moses Lake, at the controls of a DC-10.
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Retired Japan Air Line flight engineer Nobuhiro Uematsu.
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The memorial to the Japan Airlines flight crew who died when their plane skidded off the runway during a training flight and caught fire.
Charles H. Featherstone/Columbia Basin Herald
MOSES LAKE — In the Clyde Owen Memorial Park next to the main terminal building of the Grant County International Airport, atop a basalt pillar, sits a plaque.
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