The Nation - News from Nov. 28, 1985
Boeing Co. said it issued an advisory suggesting airlines make modifications in the tail section of their 747 airliners but said the action is not directly related to the crash of a Japan Air Lines jet earlier this year. Defects in the pressure bulkhead of the plane’s tail section are suspected of causing the crash of the JAL 747, which killed 520 of the 524 people aboard when it slammed into a mountainside in Japan Aug. 12.
