Misfortune in Japan
Airliner in flames after collision at Tokyo airport
Watch the video: Japan Airlines plane in flames at Tokyo airport.
STORY: Dramatic scenes at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday. A Japan Airlines plane caught fire after a suspected collision with a Coast Guard plane. The airline said all 379 passengers and crew on board had been brought to safety. According to the information, the plane came from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido Prefecture. Firefighters tried to get the fire under control. The background to the accident was initially unclear. The Coast Guard said it was investigating the possibility that one of its planes collided with the passenger plane. Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that five of the six crew members of the coast guard plane were missing and one had managed to escape the flames.
Dramatic incident at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport: A passenger plane caught fire during landing.
After a collision with another plane at Tokyo Haneda International Airport, a Japanese airliner burst into flames and was completely burned out. Television images showed the Japan Airlines plane driving over the tarmac on Tuesday before orange flames shot out and the jet slowed.
The passenger plane collided with a Japanese Coast Guard plane while landing, Japanese media reported, citing the Transport Ministry. Two of the six people on board the coast guard plane were dead and the pilot was seriously injured, the Japanese television station TBS reported. The broadcaster NHK reported, however, Five inmates are missing and another is safe.
Tokyo Airport: All occupants of the Japan Airlines jet are safe
Live images from TBS showed people leaving the Airbus A-350 with flight number 516 via an emergency slide while the fire was being extinguished. Japan Airlines said all 367 passengers and 12 crew members on board had been evacuated. The airliner came from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido Prefecture.
The crew of the coast guard plane wanted to bring material to the earthquake zone on the country’s west coast, according to the Jiji news agency. At least 48 people have died in a series of quakes there since New Year’s Day. There was serious damage.
Haneda Airport is one of two international airports in the Japanese capital and is one of the airports with the highest number of passengers in the world.