A Japan Airways airplane is on fireplace on the runway of Haneda airport on Tuesday in Tokyo.
Kyodo Information through AP
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Kyodo Information through AP
A Japan Airways airplane is on fireplace on the runway of Haneda airport on Tuesday in Tokyo.
Kyodo Information through AP
TOKYO — A passenger airplane burst into flames on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday, with information studies saying it hit one other plane after touchdown.
NHK TV reported that every one occupants of Japan Airways flight JAL-516, believed to whole 379 folks, acquired out safely earlier than the airplane was totally engulfed in flames. The Japanese coast guard, which operated the opposite airplane, stated its pilot had escaped however 5 crew members are lacking.
Native TV video confirmed a big eruption of fireplace and smoke from the facet of the Japan Airways airplane because it taxied on a runway. The realm across the wing then caught fireplace. Footage an hour later confirmed the airplane absolutely on fireplace.
NHK TV stated the airplane was an Airbus A-350 that had flown from Shin Chitose airport, close to town of Sapporo, to Haneda.
Coast Guard spokesperson Yoshinori Yanagishima confirmed the collision between the passenger airplane and its flight MA-722, a Bombardier Sprint-8.
Swede Anton Deibe, 17, who was a passenger on the Japan Airways airplane, advised Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that “the complete cabin was full of smoke inside a couple of minutes. We threw ourselves down on the ground. Then the emergency doorways have been opened and we threw ourselves at them.
“The smoke within the cabin stung like hell. It was a hell. We don’t know the place we’re going so we simply run out into the sphere. It was chaos,” added Deibe, who was touring together with his mother and father and sister.
Kyodo stated the coast guard airplane, which relies at Haneda, had been attributable to head to Niigata to ship aid items to residents affected by a lethal earthquake within the area on Monday that killed at the least 48 folks.
Haneda is without doubt one of the busiest airports in Japan, and many individuals journey over the New 12 months holidays.
