THE TV channels Japanese authorities broadcast impressive images this Tuesday of a Japan Airlines airliner on fire on the runway at Tokyo-Haneda airport. We see a large explosion ring out as the aircraft taxis on the tarmac.
In the images taken at 5:47 p.m. local time (8:47 a.m. GMT), we could see this plane taxiing on the tarmac before an explosion was triggered and left a trail of flames behind the aircraft, which came to rest further away. According to several local media, it was the airliner JAL 5016 coming from Sapporo (northern Japan), an Airbus A350-900, which hit a Japanese coast guard plane.
The 367 passengers evacuated
“It is not clear whether there was a collision or not,” said a coast guard official at Tokyo-Haneda airport. But what is certain is that our plane is involved. »
The 367 passengers of the burning plane were evacuated, according to Japanese national television channel NHK news. Significant resources were deployed to control the fire which was ravaging the aircraft.
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