JAL paid ¥780 million (7.6 million USD) to the victims’ relatives in the form of “condolence money” without admitting liability. JAL president, Yasumoto Takagi (高木 養根), resigned. Hiroo Tominaga, a JAL maintenance manager, and Susumu Tajima, an engineer who had inspected and cleared the aircraft as flight-worthy, both killed themselves to apologize for the accident.