Burnt out wreck of plane seen on runway after being destroyed by huge fireball
Dramatic aerial footage shows the charred remains of the plane that erupted in a fireball after a deadly airport collision yesterday.
The clip shows a slow fly over of the top of the Japan Airlines plane which had 379 passengers and crew on board when it burst into flames at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Tuesday. It had been in collision with a smaller coastguard aircraft on the runway.
Although everyone on board the jet managed to escape, five out of the six people on board the smaller plane died. The pilot of the coastguard plane, which exploded, was able to escape with injuries but tragically his crew was killed. Transport safety officials are now focusing on communication between air traffic control officials and the two aircraft to determine what led to the collision.
Kyodo News said the coastguard plane, which is based at Haneda, had been due to head to Niigata to deliver relief goods to residents affected by a deadly earthquake in the region on Monday that killed at least 60 people.
Both sides said they received a go-ahead from aviation officials and the crash led to an orange fireball erupting. The JAL plane continued down the runway covered in flames while spewing grey smoke but within 20 minutes, all 379 passengers and crew members had slid down emergency chutes and evacuated.
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Charred remains of the airplane (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag)The air traffic officials gave the JAL airliner landing permission, while telling the coastguard pilot to wait before entering the runway, NHK television reported Wednesday. But the coastguard pilot said he also had been given permission to take off and this was being verified.
Six experts from the Japan Transport Safety Board have examined what remained of the aircraft, the authority said. TV footage showed the severely damaged A350's wings among the charred, broken parts of fuselage while the smaller coastguard plane looked like a mound of rubble.
All 379 on the Japan Airlines survived (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag)Transport safety investigators plan to interview the pilots and officials from both sides, as well as air traffic control officials to find out how the two planes simultaneously ended up on the runway, JTSB said. JAL Managing Executive Officer Tadayuki Tsutsumi told a news conference that the A350 was making a "normal entry and landing" on the runway. Another JAL executive, Noriyuki Aoki, said the flight had received permission to land from aviation officials.
Airbus said in a statement it was sending specialists to help Japanese and French officials investigating the accident, and that the plane was delivered to Japan Airlines in late 2021. JAL operates 16 of the A350-900 version aircraft, according to its website. The twin-engine, twin-aisle A350 is used by a number of long-haul international carriers. More than 570 of the aircraft are in operation, according to Airbus.
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