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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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Alain Durand / Wikimedia Commons At 15:42, the flight engineer was dispatched from the flight deck to perform an inspection at the back of the cabin. Upon his return, he reported that both right-hand and left-hand rear stabilizers had sustained damage.

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