Miraculous air disaster survivals are extremely rare. Tuesday's collision at Tokyo's Haneda Airport killed five people aboard a Japanese coast guard plane, but all 379 passengers and crew aboard a Japan Airlines passenger plane survived the wall of flames that engulfed their their jet.
Here are three other heroic air evacuations:
On Aug. 2, 2005, an Air France Airbus A340 arriving from Paris overshot the runway and landed in a ravine just outside Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport.
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