Nearly 40 years ago, a Japan Airlines crash killed over 500 people, cost the airline millions, and made ridership plummet

Tue, 01/02/2024 - 14:31

aerial image of rescuers around plane wreckage — Rescuers searching for survivors at the site of the crash on August 13, 1985.
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A Japan Airlines commercial jet collided with a Coast Guard plane on the runway on Tuesday.
Everyone on the Japan Airlines flight survived, but five died on the smaller plane.
The last time a JAL plane was involved in a fatal crash was in 1985, the deadliest single plane crash ever.

A Japan Airlines jet collided with a Coast Guard plane on Tuesday evening while landing at Tokyo's Haneda airport, causing a fiery crash that killed five people on the Coast Guard plane.