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.

For Boeing, the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 forced the company to make changes. “We looked upon it as a real chance to learn a lot of lessons,” says Purvis. Many of those lessons were ...

The 1985 Japan Airlines crash killed 520 of the 524 people on board, and the four survivors waited 14 hours for rescuers.

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