Japan Airways jet bursts into flames upon touchdown at Tokyo’s Haneda airport

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A hearth has damaged out on a Japan Airways plane because it got here in to land at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, with TV footage exhibiting flames coming from the airplane’s engine and a few home windows.

Authorities stated the big fireplace was doubtless brought on by a collision between the Japan Airways airplane and a Japanese Coast Guard plane.

A Japan Airways spokesperson stated flight JAL 516 was carrying 367 passengers from Shin-Chitose airport in Hokkaido to Haneda when the incident occurred on touchdown. There have been 12 crew members on board.

All passengers and crew on board the passenger flight are believed to have been safely evacuated, public broadcaster NHK stated.

“We’re at present assessing the extent of the injury,” the airline stated, in accordance with NHK.

Nonetheless, 5 out of six Japan Coast Guard crew members on the plane that collided with the Japan Airways plane are at present lacking, in accordance with TBS Tv. The sixth member of Coast Guard personnel was reported to have escaped the crash.

The Japan Coast Guard stated they’re wanting into the opportunity of a crash involving one in every of its planes and the Japan Airways plane.

Tokyo fireplace division additionally stated that the hearth is believed to have been brought on by a collision between the passenger plane and a Japan Coast Guard plane.

Japan Airways’ A350 airplane is on fireplace at Haneda worldwide airport in Tokyo

(REUTERS)

TV footage from Japan’s public broadcaster confirmed an enormous blaze engulfing the rear of the airplane on the airport and the runway additionally appeared to have ignited.

Different movies confirmed firefighters battling to douse the hearth.

The reason for the hearth, and whether or not anybody was injured, was unclear.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has launched an investigation into the incident.

All passengers have been safely evacuated

(Sky Information)

The airplane took off from Sapporo in Hokkaido at 4pm native time and was purported to land in Tokyo at 5.40pm.

It comes as authorities in Japan have been racing in opposition to time after a large 7.6 earthquake and later a sequence of tremors induced widespread injury and devastation. At the least 48 folks have died.

Extra flights have been purported to function from Haneda after Noto airport was shut down within the aftermath of the earthquake.

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