Japan Airlines Corp. is displaying messages at its Safety Promotion Center written by passengers and a cabin attendant before they died in the 1985 jumbo jet crash in Gunma Prefecture that claimed 520 lives.
The center opened April 24 in a building at Tokyo's Haneda airport with 41 pieces of wreckage of the jet on display, including the collapsed pressure bulkhead believed to have caused the sudden decompression and loss of tail fin that led to the crash.
More items were put on display this week, including notes written by Mariko Shirai, a 26-year-old passenger who was a former JAL employee, and photos of messages by four other passengers written on items including notebooks and a paper sack.