Cabin Crew Final Approach Horizontal Stabilizer 
Aerotime
MARCH 3, 2025
It cited the crash of JAL 516 at Haneda Airport (HND) as an example of where crew training and procedural accuracy prevented an incident from becoming a disaster. But since 1971, the airline operated without a single fatality, until in 2000 a failure of part of the horizontal stabilizer on an MD-80 caused a crash that claimed 88 lives.
Aerotime
JULY 19, 2024
With the landing gear down but without the use of the wing leading-edge slats and trailing-edge flaps, there was little the crew could do to control the stricken aircraft’s approach speed, other than through variable engine power settings. He eventually died in August 2019 after a short illness, just six days before his 88th birthday.
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