Aerial footage of Japan aircraft wreckage reveals extent of deadly plane fire
Aerial footage of the Japan Airlines plane that crashed on Tuesday 2 January shows the full extent of the charred wreckage.
The view shows the entire fuselage of the aircraft is completely burnt with only the wings and tailplane partly intact, as debris is scattered on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Wednesday.
Five people were killed and more than a dozen injured when a Japanese coastguard aircraft collided with the Airbus A350, which burst into flames upon landing.
The coastguard plane was carrying aid for victims of the earthquake that hit the country on New Year’s Day and killed at least 60 people.
All 379 people aboard the passenger plane miraculously escaped, an airline spokesperson confirmed.
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19 comments
Why is the media so focused on this? Who cares? Let’s move on, there’s a genocide in Gaza happening right now. WW3 too and it’s all “breaking news” about some plane that caught fire
Japan can’t catch a break
It makes it even sadder that the fatalities were coastguards sending aid to the Japan Earthquake incidents, people who were trying to save lives were killed, and likely many more suffered from this too. Rest in peace to the 5 coastguards, and everyone caught up in the Earthquakes – we pray for Japan to heal for a much better 2024 🙏
That’s horrifying
Condolences to those that died. The wings store fuel, its amazing they did not explode.
Crews and equipment were on site within moments and the entire fuselage and surrounding area were drenched in foam – but the entire plane burned literally to ash?
Reassuring. Have we started building them out of wood again?
Why is there so much coverage on this? We don't need an in depth analysis of a collision that killed 5 people. A 5 people accident is not a disaster. Yes it's upsetting, but surely there are more pressing things that should be covered than this?
The crash very sadly killed 5 people, the fire killed no one so how exactly was it a deadly fire?
Tired of the misleading headlines. The fire wasn't deadly. No one on the plane died. The poor servicemen in the small plane – the one that no one talks about – are the ones who suffered.
The plane fire was NOT deadly, in this particular case.
All 379 people on that Airbus evacuated safely.
The Coast Guard folks that died likely died due to the initial impact – their DH 8 was a MUCH smaller aircraft.
I'm glad everyone got out of this, but condolences to the families of the Coastguard plane. However I wonder why they couldn't extinguish this sooner, the plane is accessible from all sides and surely the fire brigade has more than 4 tenders. Or did they deliberately decide to let it burn out and not drench it so avoid a SFO scenario?
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Hmm. So, the size of the fire that destroyed an aeroplane is about the size of an aeroplane. You learn something new every day.
Lord I pray for the families and friends especially at this time and also for the rest of the Japanese people at this time 🙏
My heart it bleeds, for you it cries, intensity with no disguise 😢
What a horrible series of events to start 2024 Japans faced, my thoughts with the Japanese people and their families
Oh so sorry you have had to experience this tragic accident.
I think that this incident is partially to do with Japanese expecting the rescue flights to fit in with normal traffic at their airports, this means the ATC workload will get very busy,
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