What America Can Learn From the Tokyo Crash
null By Peggy NoonanJan. 4, 2024 6:24 pm ETJournal Editorial Report: Best guesses of what's to come from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThoughts arising from the incident at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and the extraordinary exit:On Tuesday Japan Airlines Flight 516, carrying 367 passengers, many of them revelers returning from the New Year’s holiday, collided on landing with a Japanese coast-guard plane that was carrying supplies for earthquake survivors of the Noto Peninsula. Five of the six on board the latter aircraft died as a fireball engulfed it. Flight 516, an Airbus A350, also quickly began to burn, its cabins filling with smoke so thick they turned pitch black and flight attendants had to use flashlights. In less than 20 minutes the jetliner was consumed by flames; it burned to a husk. Yet all 367 survived, as did the 12-person crew. It has been called a miracle.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Res
Jan. 4, 2024 6:24 pm ET
Thoughts arising from the incident at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and the extraordinary exit:
On Tuesday Japan Airlines Flight 516, carrying 367 passengers, many of them revelers returning from the New Year’s holiday, collided on landing with a Japanese coast-guard plane that was carrying supplies for earthquake survivors of the Noto Peninsula. Five of the six on board the latter aircraft died as a fireball engulfed it. Flight 516, an Airbus A350, also quickly began to burn, its cabins filling with smoke so thick they turned pitch black and flight attendants had to use flashlights. In less than 20 minutes the jetliner was consumed by flames; it burned to a husk. Yet all 367 survived, as did the 12-person crew. It has been called a miracle.
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About this article
Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000.
She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University.
Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford. She lives in New York City. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.
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