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