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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maroosha Muzaffar

Oxygen masks deploy as Japan Airlines flight plunges 26,000ft before emergency landing

A Boeing 737 plane flying from Shanghai to Tokyo made an emergency landing in Osaka after a sudden pressurisation failure forced it to drop nearly 26,000ft in 10 minutes on Monday.

Flight JL8696/IJ004 – operated under a codeshare deal between Japan Airlines and its low-cost subsidiary Spring Airlines Japan – departed from the Shanghai Pudong airport in China for the Tokyo Narita airport in Japan but made an emergency landing at the Kansai airport in Osaka at around 8.50pm local time.

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