Miracle Air Crash Evacuations
Posted on AllSides January 3rd, 2024
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Miraculous air disaster survivals, of the kind that saw all 379 Japan Airlines passengers and crew escape a wall of flames about to engulf their jet at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, are extremely rare. Tuesday's collision between the passenger jet and a coast guard plane killed five people aboard the latter craft. Here are three other heroic air evacuations: On August 2, 2005, an Air France Airbus A340 arriving from Paris overshot the runway and landed in a ravine just outside Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport. All 297 passengers and...
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