Eve of 26th anniv. of JAL jet crash

UENO, Japan - People release lanterns into the Kanna River in the village of Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2011, during a ceremony to commemorate the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash, on the eve of the 26th anniversary of the accident. The plane crashed into a mountain ridge in the prefecture.

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