Kin remember JAL crash victims on 36th anniversary

Relatives commemorated Thursday the 36th anniversary of the Japan Airlines jet crash that claimed the lives of 520 crew and passengers in the world's deadliest single-aircraft accident.Members of bereaved families, many of them elderly, climbed the steep mountain trail to the Boeing 747's crash site on Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo where they paid their respects and laid flowers at a monument.Participants were restricted mostly to kin for the second year amid the coronavirus pandemic."It is physically demanding. Though every year I think this will be the last time, I…READ FULL ARTICLE