or maintenance related? it pain meese to say this but i think we are finding more and more where it is repair related. there were at least two suicides in the wake of the incident. japan airlines employee who was working with victims families and an inspection engineer who issued a certificate of air worthyness for the doomed plane a of the 1978 tail strike. to this day, jal 123 remains the deadliest single aircraft accident in the history of aviation. we have seen the disastrous results of airplanes not properly repaired, maintained or inspected. japan airline flight 123, american flight 191, aloha, flight 243. we have also seen what can happen when a plane has a design flaw as in the case of united plight 811. but those flights are the exception. not the rule. every day 3 million passengers