Japan plane fire: What we know so far about Japan Airlines plane crash
This footage shows the moment the passenger plane collided with the Coast Guard aircraft Japan Airlines flight 516 a streak of flames as it skids along the runway these pictures taken by a passenger show what was happening inside the orange glow of fire can be seen through the window and emergency alarms
Sound throughout the cabin moments later passengers can be seen leaving their seats smoke enveloping them live images from Hana airport then showed firefighters trying to contain The Inferno an evacuation slide is visible as the blaze quickly licks through the fuselage the explosive power of the fire and the intensity of the heat soon
Consumes The Airliner it’s not surprising that what happened here is is already being hailed a miracle somehow all 367 passengers and 12 crew managed to evacuate the plane and reach safety the crew had trained to get all the passengers off in 9 seconds using half of the main exits it does sound
Like they’ve done uh extraordinary well to to save everybody’s lives Coast Guard officials have now confirmed one crew member escaped from their aircraft but the other five did not survive this is one of the busiest times of year at one of the world’s busiest airports the J flight had flown out of
Shin Choi airport in Northern Japan before the disaster happened more than 70 fire engines were scrambled into action and clearly the speed of all involved in the rescue helped avert a major catastrophe the crash comes after an earthquake devastated large areas of the country’s West Coast investigators are now trying to
Establish why this happened and how two planes were on the same Runway at the same time Alex Rossy Sky News
A Japan Airlines flight caught fire on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda airport after a collision with a coastguard plane.
Five of six crew members on board the coastguard plane were killed. All passengers and crew members on board the Japan Airlines flight were safely evacuated.
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