Victims' families visit JAL jet crash site

Victims' families visit JAL jet crash site

MAEBASHI, Japan - Relatives of victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines (JAL) jumbo jet disaster pray at a cenotaph on Mt. Osutaka in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 12, the 18th anniversary of the crash which killed 520 people and was the world's worst single-aircraft accident.

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