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日本ファクトチェックセンター(JFC)Disasters & emergencies

日航123便墜落事故で機長が「被弾したぞ」と発言?

Publisher’s rating: 根拠不明

The claim concerns a video presented as a “complete” recording of the JAL 123 cockpit voice recorder (CVR). It attributes statements including “I’ve been hit” and “They really fired” to the captain, suggesting that fighter aircraft were involved in the 1985 crash. The review says the video adds red captions over unclear or silent portions of the audio, without showing how those words were established. To check the claim, the review compares the alleged dialogue with the official accident investigation record. It reports that the Accident Investigation Commission published its report in 1987 and that an appendix transcribes the recovered CVR recording second by second. The transcript includes cockpit conversations, but not the claimed exchange about a Phantom aircraft following JAL 123 or the statements about being hit and fired upon. The review also reports that the words cannot be heard in the circulated audio. The review concludes that the video provides no evidentiary basis for the red captions: the relevant portions are silent or interrupted, and the post supplies no explanation for how the captions were derived. Its conclusion is specific to the alleged CVR statements and the video examined; the excerpt does not describe an independent audio-forensics analysis.

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