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Saturday, September 10, 2016
 
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The Japan Air Lines DC-8 plane, named the Shiga, landed at close to 9:30 a.m., Nov. 22, 1968, on a shallow reef at the eastern tip of Coyote Point. This was about three miles short of the runway. The plane was on a trip from Tokyo to SFO, after making a stop in Honolulu. The pilot was experienced (he had flown during World War II), but apparently misread the instruments on the DC-8, which was less than a year old. [...] Passengers were evacuated to the Coyote Point Yacht Harbor
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A local salvage firm called Bigge Drayage Company started planning the excavation of the plane just 45 minutes after the landing. It was a race against time, because the salt water was quickly corroding the hull. “”We’ve got to get that plane out of there within 24 hours or it will be just an $8.3 million piece of junk.” [...] Two derrick cranes lifted the plane out of the water, and onto a barge. It was transported to the San Francisco airport, where five cranes lifted it off the barge.
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About a year and $4 million later, this DC-8 flew again. [...] the plane flew for Japan Air Lines until 1983, was sold more than once, and continued flying well into the 1990s. It was dismantled in 2001.
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http://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2011/04/20/the-japan-air-lines-miracle-water-landing-of-1968-photos/
http://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2011/04/20/the-japan-air-lines-miracle-water-landing-of-1968-photos

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