INTERVIEW: How did all passengers and crew survive Japanese plane disaster?

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Professor Doug Drury, Head of Aviation at Central Queensland University, and a former airline pilot, talks to SBS's Naveen Razik about the escape of all passengers and crew from a burning A350 JAL airliner at Haneda Airport in Japan. He's listened to the Air Traffic Control conversations, analyses what appears to have happened and explains why JAL's safety evacuation procedures were so successful.

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