The captain of a plane that collided with a Japan Airlines jet said he was cleared for takeoff, but air-traffic-control transcripts tell a different story
We now have a better sense of what may have caused the Japan Airlines crash in Tokyo. A Japanese coast-guard aircraft that the passenger jet hit while landing wasn’t cleared to take off. Transcripts from just before the crash appear to contradict the coast-guard pilot’s claim. A coast-guard aircraft that collided with a Japan Airlines … Read more