Japan Air President Offers to Resign in Aftermath of Crash
The president of Japan Air Lines today offered to resign in the aftermath of the crash of one of the airline’s jumbo jets with 524 people aboard, the worst single-aircraft disaster in history.
Airline President Yasumoto Takagi said at a news conference that he has made the offer to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and to JAL Chairman Nihachiro Hanamura. He later said he would step down when the investigation of the crash is completed.
JAL is owned 34.9% by the government and the rest by private investors.
There was no immediate comment from the government or from JAL.
Takagi said he expressed thanks to Nakasone for the efforts of police, firefighters and Self-Defense Force troops in the rescue efforts that followed the crash of the Boeing 747.
Rescuers are working today to bring bodies down from the crash site, about 70 miles northwest of Tokyo.
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