November 23, 2024 00:45 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
UK-India Free Trade Agreement negotiations to resume in early 2024 | UK can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits country based on ICC warrant | Centre to send over 10,000 additional soldiers to violence-hit Manipur amid fresh violence | Chhattisgarh: 10 Maoists killed during encounter with security forces in Sukma | Baba Siddique murder case: Arrested Akashdeep Gill used a labourer's hotspot to evade tracking, say police
5 dead as Japan plane catches fire after collision with coast guard aircraft at Tokyo airport
Tokyo
Japan Airlines flight burst into flames after landing at Haneda Airport. Photo Courtesy: X page video screen grab

5 dead as Japan plane catches fire after collision with coast guard aircraft at Tokyo airport

| @indiablooms | 02 Jan 2024, 10:04 pm

Tokyo/IBNS: Five people aboard a Japan Coast Guard aircraft died Tuesday when it hit a Japan Airlines passenger plane on the ground resulting in a fiery collision at Tokyo's Haneda airport, media reports said.

All 379 passengers and crew on board the passenger plane that caught fire were safely evacuated.

However, five of the six crew members from the coast guard plane, which was bound for central Japan after Monday's huge earthquake, could not be saved. The captain escaped and survived but was injured.

The cause of the accident is yet to be known.

Video footage showed the passenger jet, a Japan Airlines Flight coming from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido moving at Tokyo's Haneda Airport and then igniting with a large fireball.

According to reports, all passengers and crew members were evacuated from the flight using emergency slides.

As per the flight tracking site FlightAware, the aeroplane was an Airbus A350-900.

Japan has not recorded a major commercial aviation accident in decades.

In 1985, at least 520 passengers died when a  JAL jumbo jet flying from Tokyo to Osaka crashed in the central Gunma region.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Related Images
Xi Jinping, Putin in Russia 22 Mar 2023, 02:56 pm
Related Videos