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After colliding with a tiny coast guard plane in what would be every passenger's nightmare, the world watched in horror as a Japan Airlines jet erupted into fire at an airport near Tokyo this week. However, all 379 passengers and crew on board the massive airliner managed to safely escaped with their lives when the plane was engulfed in a raging inferno on the runway at Haneda Airport in Ota City. Such miraculous escapes are extremely rare, but there have been other extraordinary tales of surviving, with passengers able to evacuate their burning planes just in time. People have survived aviation disasters against the odds, from pilot Chelsey Sullenberger's heroics of saving all 155 passengers and crew by landing his flight in the Hudson River to the evacuation of hundreds of people from a burning plane in Dubai. Here's a look at some of the most unusual cases of passengers recovering from plane crashes with their lives.