Two Japan Airlines planes nearly collide over Suruga Bay in Japan.

Japan Airlines (JAL) is a Japanese airline headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It is Japan's second-largest airline after All Nippon Airways (ANA) and has been considered the flag carrier of Japan due to its history. Its main hubs are Tokyo's Narita and Haneda airports, as well as secondary hubs in Osaka's Kansai and Itami airports. The JAL group, which includes Japan Airlines, also comprises J-Air, Japan Air Commuter, Japan Transocean Air, Hokkaido Air System, and Ryukyu Air Commuter for domestic feeder services, and JAL Cargo for cargo and mail services.

On 31 January 2001, Japan Airlines Flight 907, a Boeing 747-446D en route from Haneda Airport, Japan, to Naha Airport, Okinawa, narrowly avoided a mid-air collision with Japan Airlines Flight 958, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 en route from Gimhae International Airport, South Korea, to Narita International Airport, Japan. The event became known in Japan as the Japan Airlines near miss incident above Suruga Bay .

Suruga Bay is a bay on the Pacific coast of Honshū in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is situated north of a straight line from Omaezaki Point to Irōzaki Point at the tip of the Izu Peninsula and surrounded by Honshū to the southwest and west and the Izu Peninsula to the east.

January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 334 days remain until the end of the year.