As it happened: 5 dead, 379 escape blaze after planes collide at Tokyo's Haneda airport
The five dead are crew members of a Japan Coast Guard plane that collided with a Japan Airlines passenger jet.
A Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Jan 2, 2024. (Photo: AFP/Jiji Press)
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TOKYO: All 379 passengers and crew of a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped from a fire following a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Tuesday (Jan 2), but local media said five of the six crew members of the coast guard plane had died.
Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the JAL Airbus A350 aircraft bursting into flames as it skidded down the tarmac at around 6pm. (0900 GMT).
The flight, JL516, had departed from Sapporo's New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido. Live footage from Haneda showed flames engulfing the plane as fire crews worked to put out the fire:
