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Japan Airlines Flight 2 was a flight piloted by Captain Kohei Asoh on November 22, 1968.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Splashdown of the "Shiga" )〕 The plane was a new Douglas DC-8 named "Shiga", flying from Tokyo International Airport to San Francisco International Airport. Due to heavy fog and other factors, Asoh mistakenly landed the plane in the shallow waters of San Francisco Bay, two and a half miles short of the runway.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NTSB Aircraft Accident Report AAR-70-02 )〕 None of the 96 passengers or 11 crew were injured in the landing. The passengers all evacuated the plane on lifeboats. The plane came to rest on solid ground 10 feet below the water, leaving the forward exits above the waterline. It was not severely damaged and was recovered 55 hours after the incident,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aviation Safety Network Accident Description )〕 transported to the airport on a barge. United Airlines refurbished the aircraft for service at their maintenance base at the airport, at a cost of roughly $4 million USD.〔The Japan Air Lines miracle water landing of 1968. Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle & SFGate, 2011.〕 The aircraft was returned to JAL on March 31, 1969,〔Asoh had served as a flight instructor in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War and was a 15-year veteran of JAL. He had almost 9,800 hours of flight experience at the time of the accident. (NTSB Aircraft Accident Report AAR-70-02 )〕 where it was renamed "Hidaka" and continued in service to JAL until 1983. Japan Airlines still flies from Tokyo (Haneda) to San Francisco, today using a Boeing 777-300ER. ==Cause of accident== Captain Asoh was a veteran pilot with roughly 10,000 hours of flight time, 1,000 of them on DC-8s. During World War II he served as a flight instructor for the Japanese military.〔 His first officer, Captain Joseph Hazen, had similar flight time, but little DC-8 experience. Captain Asoh attempted an automatic-coupled Instrument Landing System (ILS) approach, something neither of them had done before on a recorded DC-8 flight. The cloud ceiling was 300 feet, with visibility of 3/4 of a mile, and there was little contrast between the sky and the calm waters of the bay. As a result, once the plane descended below the clouds, the mistake was not recognized in time to correct it before hitting the water. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) review of the incident found that:
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