>>7691409>>7691352Is a picture from Japan Air flight 123.
Basically the vertical stabilizer ripped off, making the plane's turns hard to control. This would have been survivable, but then they also started to rapidly lose hydraulics fluid, effectively making the plane unsteerable. They couldn't move any of the flaps, so their only option to keep it in the sky was to change the thrust on the engines to make the plane turn and descend/rise.
Doing this is almost impossible, and most pilots who later tried this scenario on flight computers crashed in a couple of minutes, while the jap pilots kept it flying for over half an hour.
They tried to divert to a nearby airport, but a mountain was in the way and increasing engine power was simply not enough to get the plane over it.
What he's alluding to is the fact than an american airbase offered assistance with rescue efforts but the japs declined because muh samurai honor. Reports from the 4 survivors state that they heard wailing and screaming long after the crash, so more people could have survived if rescuers would have gotten there in time.
