Japan: Passenger plane bursts into flames on runway | DW News

I’m Phil Gail welcome to the program we begin with breaking news from Japan where a passenger plane has caught fire on the runway of Tokyo’s haneda airport so these are live images showing the uh the scene at the airport at the moment uh fire crews are responding a local

Media Reports say nearly 400 people were on board and all got out safely after landing The Airliner is thought to have collided with another plane belonging to at Japan’s Coast Guard and here’s the moment the fire broke out you can see the Japan Airlines aircraft bursting

Into flames as it touch down on the airport’s Runway let’s go to journalist Sonia blaska in Tokyo uh welcome Sonia um so what more can you tell us about the sequence of events yes so I mean looking at the pictures um the word miracle comes to mind um it’s really incredible um you

Know that uh 367 passengers among them eight children have survived this there were also 12 crew members and all of them got out just in time um the fade as you mentioned of the other plane the members of the other plane is still unclear apparently the pilot escaped with

Injuries but there were four five more people on the plane and it’s still not quite clear what happened to them it looks like there was a lot of fuel on planes and that’s why the explosion was so big I beg you pardon I I I spoke as

You were speaking so the last thing you said it looked like what sorry it looked like that there was a lot of fuel on the planes um and that’s why the explosion was was so big that’s what Japanese media here are saying and what do we know about the second

Airplane uh involved in this Collision it’s apparently based in in Hana airport and it was supposed to travel to the northwest of Japan to bring Goods um to to rescue people in the area affected by the earthquake and that makes the whole um thing even more

More tragic um so yeah we really need to wait for official confirmation from the authorities what exactly happened with the second plane okay we’ve been uh we’ve been um seeing those uh pictures of the airplane uh bursting into flames as it touched down they really are quite

Horrific and this of course in a country that has uh just seen will has seen more than its fair share of tragedy in the last few days can you hear me Sonia oh sorry yes um yes it has um the um I mean the new year one must know

That the first three days of every year this is really the quietest time in Japan everybody’s at home this is like basically Christmas in in Western countries and so for this to happen in such a in such a usually really quiet time a family time makes it even more

More dramatic and it also means that a lot of um infrastructure is not maybe as readily available as usually because uh people are away on vacation also there are a lot of people holidaying in areas in other areas um also in the nor peninsula where the earthquake happened

So that makes the whole situation even more difficult and as you say the the uh the second plane on the the the runway was due to make deliveries to to to actually go on a rescue mission uh to the earthquake zone yes yeah so the the rescue efforts

Are going on and uh now the fact that one of the biggest airports in Japan is basically um out of order for the time being because all of the runways are now uh blocked uh the traffic has stopped um this is going to hamper the rescue efforts even more and planes that were

Supposed to land in Hana are being diverted to another relatively big air airport um in Narita which is also near Tokyo okay thank you for that Sonia Sonia blaska in Tokyo

A Japan Airlines plane caught fire on the runway at Haneda airport in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, on Tuesday, after reportedly colliding with a Coast Guard aircraft. The passenger plane was identified by a Japan Airlines spokesperson as flight 516, traveling from Shin-Chitose airport in Hokkaido to Haneda. Haneda is one of Japan’s busiest airports.
Japan Airlines said all 379 people on board the burning aircraft, both passengers and crew members, were safely evacuated. Video footage broadcast live on public broadcaster NHK showed fire crews working to put out the blaze.Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1

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26 comments

  2. Reporter Sonja laughs at questions and then forgets to answer them… I wonder if she is missing some tiles in the attic….

  5. okay.. an airplane is in fire.. and the west has to live streaming it.. but not GAZA where 23000 people are being k*lled.

  6. I'm glad that ALL crews and passengers on JAL airplane were able to evaluate the plane. But I'm worried about 5 passengers on Japan Coast Guard plane.

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