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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

Lesson passengers should learn from the Tokyo plane crash

JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images

The image of a huge passenger aircraft speeding along a runway in flames will linger.

Japan Airlines flight JL516 had flown normally from the northern island of Hokkaido. The Airbus A350 was landing at Tokyo’s Haneda airport when it was in collision with a much smaller plane working for the Japanese coastguard in earthquake relief.

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