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Japan Airlines jet bursts into flames after collision with earthquake relief plane at Tokyo Haneda airport (www.cnn.com)

submitted 2 years ago by memfree@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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A Japan Airlines plane carrying hundreds of passengers burst into flames on landing at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday after it was in collision with another aircraft involved in earthquake relief efforts.

JAL flight 516 ignited after flying into Haneda from the northern Japanese city of Sapporo at 5:47 p.m. local time (3:47 a.m. ET)

All crew members and passengers, including eight children under the age of two, were safely evacuated from the passenger plane, according to the airline. One person on the Coast Guard plane escaped, but five are unaccounted for.

The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) confirms to CNN that one of its aircraft, likely a fixed-wing MA722, collided with commercial flight 516 on the runway.

A JCG spokesman told CNN that the JCG aircraft was headed from Haneda airport to a JCG airbase in Niigata prefecture to help with relief efforts following a 7.5-magnitude earthquake on Monday.

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like a runway collission? The article is pretty light on the exact details, the Reuters article has more but I guess it's early days.

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

BBC feed had a video - looks very much like runway collision https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-67862184 (scroll down)