Japan plane fire: Five crew members on coastguard flight killed after crash
Well shocking images that we can see on the screen there the plane that we can see is a Japanese Airline plane that has landed on the runway at Tokyo’s Hana airport firstly all 379 plus passengers and crew on board this a350 have been evacuated from that Japan
Japanese Airline uh plane and we now know that this fire that we can see there as it’s coming down the runway is as a result of two planes colliding when this plane landed the Japan coast guard says its plane ma 722 a bombarder -8 aircraft collided with this Japan
Airlines flight and we can now tell you that the state broadcaster NHK is now reporting that five out of the six crew on board have now died the captain on board of that Coast Guard Plane did manage to escape and the Coast Guard Plane was on its way to nigata airport
To deliver rer earthquake Aid of course just one day after 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the west coast of Japan uh to give you some more details uh a Japanese Airline spokesperson says the aircraft inflames there as we can see extensive damage right into the interior of that aircraft is flight 516 it was
Flying from Shin chosi airport on haido island to haneda and Japan Airlines says all on board managed to escape without life-threatening injury including uh eight children and we can see extensive damage there firefighters of course continuing to try to extinguish the Flames we had live earlier the entire
Rear portion of the aircraft collapsed uh onto the runway we have also seen social media footage from inside the plane showing orange Flames from inside the plane window there we go there out of the left portion of the air craft uh and the smoke inside the cabin as well
As it’s come out of the runway we now also hearing some testimony from uh passengers one passenger said I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed this was a passenger on the JAL Flight which told kiyodo news agency I saw Sparks
Outside the window and smoke filled with G and the cabin excuse me filled with gas and smoke but live pictures there now you can see water cannons being used there to extinguish uh the Flames that are left of this aircraft
Five of the six crew of a coastguard aircraft that collided with a Japan Airlines flight have been killed, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
All passengers and crew on board the Japan Airlines plane have been safely evacuated.
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