Horrifying footage from inside the cabin of a Japanese plane that collided with a military plane shows passengers screaming in a smoke-filled cabin as horrifying scenes unfolded at a metropolitan airport on Tuesday evening. There is.
While landing at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, Japan Airlines Flight 516 collided with a Japan Coast Guard jet, causing a fireball and crashing onto the runway.
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Users who felt fear The moment the plane ran down the runway An orange light was emitted from the plane's left engine before it made hard contact with the runway.
passenger you might have heard the screams Another clip posted by a social media user showed that the main compartment of the Airbus A350 was filled with smoke.
A passenger on the JAL plane told Kyodo News, “The moment the plane landed, I felt a thud, as if it had hit something, and it bounced upwards.'' “I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin was filled with gas and smoke.”
The Japan Airlines flight had taken off from Sapporo, Hokkaido, an hour and a half earlier and was returning to Tokyo.
A recording from the airport's control tower appeared to show the plane being cleared to “continue its approach” to land. The Guardian newspaper reported, citing live air signal broadcasts.
“From our understanding, [permission to land] ,” a Japan Airlines official told the newspaper.
All 367 passengers and 12 crew members were safely evacuated via emergency inflatable slides as fire engulfed the aircraft.
According to Japan Airlines, 14 people on board the plane were injured, but their injuries do not appear to be life-threatening.
The twin-engine Dash-8 maritime patrol aircraft manufactured by Japan's Japan Coast Guard Bombardier was lining up to take off when the passenger plane crashed.
Five of the six Coast Guard personnel on board were killed, and the 39-year-old captain escaped with injuries.
Military officials said the military plane was headed to Niigata Airport to deliver relief supplies to victims of the New Year's Day earthquake that killed at least 62 people.
Aerial photos showed the charred remains of the plane lying on the side of the runway surrounded by flame retardant, hours after it first burst into flames.
As firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze, parts of the burning plane began to peel away.
Airport emergency personnel extinguished the fire in almost six hours.
The official cause of the accident is unknown, but police plan to investigate the incident on suspicion of professional negligence, NHK TV reported.
The airport was closed for several hours but has since reopened, with departures still delayed by at least 45 minutes and arrivals delayed by more than an hour and 15 minutes, FlightAware said.
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