Former Japan Airlines President Yasumoto Takagi

Former Japan Airlines President Yasumoto Takagi died of heart failure on Jan. 9 in Tokyo. He was 86. Takagi joined Great Japan Airlines, a pre-World War II prede- cessor to JAL. He became JAL's president in 1981 but resigned after the Aug. 12, 1985, crash of a JAL Boeing 747. The crash was the...

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