Accident
On the first day of January 2004, a Japan Air System aircraft operating as Flight 979 was involved in an aviation accident that took place in the vicinity of Japan. According to official records, no fatalities were registered in connection with this event.
Documentation
This incident is recorded in the Wikidata aviation-safety dataset, a comprehensive collection that contains documentation of more than three thousand aircraft accidents and aviation occurrences spanning the entire history of powered and unpowered flight. The practice of cross-referencing records such as this one with primary investigative sources enables researchers to analyze historical safety trends and identify recurring contributing factors across different eras of aviation. The dataset serves as a resource for understanding the evolution of aviation safety over time.