How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from a burning plane
Tokyo, JapanReuters From the moment a Japan Airlines passenger jet collided with a smaller plane on a runway in Tokyo on Tuesday, it took crew 18 minutes to get all 367 travellers off the plane and safely accounted for. Reconstructing the scene based on crew accounts, officials at Japan’s second-biggest airline on Wednesday said crew […]
Five dead after JAL airliner crashes into quake aid plane at Tokyo airport
Tokyo, JapanReuters All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller aircraft on Tuesday. Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the JAL Airbus A350 airliner burst into flames as […]
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