Reuters: TOKYO -After a crash with a Coast Guard plane at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday, all 379 people on board a Japan Airlines plane luckily escaped a fire. However, local media reported that most of the Coast Guard plane’s crew had died.
One of the Coast Guard’s planes was involved in the crash. It was on its way to Niigata airport on Japan’s west coast to bring help to people who were hurt in the powerful earthquake that happened on New Year’s Day and killed at least 48.
NHK, a public station, said that five of the six crew members of the coast guard plane have died. Earlier, a Coast Guard official said that five crew members were missing and that the captain had gotten away.
At around 6 p.m. (0900 GMT), live video on NHK showed the Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350 plane catching fire as it skidded down the hard surface.
It was later destroyed by the fire, even though relief workers worked hard to put it out.
But not before getting all 367 passengers and 12 workers off the plane.
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People were yelling inside the smoke-filled cabin and running across the tarmac to get away from an evacuation slide, as seen in videos and photos shared on social media.
The moment the JAL plane touched down, a passenger told the Kyodo news agency, “I felt a boom like we had hit something and was jerked upward.” “I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin filled with gas and smoke.”
A Japan Airlines representative said that the plane had taken off from Shin-Chitose airport on Hokkaido, a hilly island in the north of Japan. The accident happened soon after arrival.
His office says that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the agencies involved to work together to quickly figure out how bad the damage is and let the public know.
A spokesperson for Haneda, one of Tokyo’s two main airports, said that all of its runways were stopped after the accident.
A mother named Kaoru Ishii was waiting outside the landing gate for her 29-year-old daughter and her boyfriend to get off the flight. She said she thought at first that the flight was late until her daughter called to explain.
“She said the plane had caught fire and she exited via a slide,” Ishii stated. “I was really relieved that she was alright.”
Sakura Murakami, Maki Shiraki, and the Tokyo Newsroom did the reporting. John Geddie wrote the story, and Andrew Heavens, Chang-Ran Kim, Raju Gopalakrishnan, and Alex Richardson edited it.
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