All 379 passengers and crew escaped relatively unscathed after Japan Airlines flight 516 burst into flames following a crash with a coast guard plane at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The Airbus A350 jet was able to evacuate all passengers in under 20 minutes.

WSJ explains how air safety advances and the plane’s design helped to ensure their survival.

0:00 The crash on the runway
0:38 How evacuation unfolded
3:19 Aircraft design
4:27 Takeaways

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