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Revealed: The safest airlines in the US in 2025

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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.

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35 years ago: How a United Airlines crew landed an ‘unflyable’ DC-10

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A subsequent post-crash examination of the wreckage revealed that components of the engine’s forward fan rotor had separated from the engine in flight and pierced the engine cowling, impacting the horizontal stabilizers and rear fuselage empennage.

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