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5 people were killed at Japan's busiest airport when 2 planes collided, causing a passenger jet to erupt into flames

Jan 2, 2024, 20:23 IST
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A Japan Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.Marcio Rodrigo Machado/S3studioGetty Images
  • A Japan Airlines plane collided with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo Haneda airport, NHK reported.
  • Police say that five people onboard the Coast Guard aircraft died, NHK reported.
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Five people on board a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport were killed Tuesday after it collided with a Japan Airlines passenger plane, which subsequently erupted into flames, police say.

JAL said that its plane, which had arrived from New Chitose Airport in Sapporo on Tuesday evening local time, appeared to have collided with the Coast Guard aircraft after landing, NHK reported.

A Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on January 2, 2024.STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images

Flames and black smoke were seen coming out of the windows of the JAL plane, and multiple fire engines were on site, photos of the runway soon after the crash show.

Police said that five of the six people on board the Coast Guard's MA722 aircraft died, and the captain was seriously injured, NHK reported. The broadcaster reported that the aircraft was traveling to the city of Niigata to deliver supplies after recent earthquakes on Japan's west coast.

Issei Kato/Reuters

JAL told Business Insider that the 367 passengers had all been evacuated, 11 of which had been taken to hospital or to the airport clinic with injuries. There were also 12 crew on the plane, JAL said.

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The JAL plane had landed at Tokyo Haneda's terminal one, per the airport's website. All the runways at Tokyo Haneda closed following the fire, NHK reported. The airport's website lists dozens of domestic flights as being canceled.

The burning fuselage of Japan Airlines flight 516 at Tokyo Haneda Airport on January 2, 2023, in a video from the public broadcaster NHK World.NHK World

The plane, which was flying route JL516, is an Airbus 350-900, JAL told BI.

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