5 crew members of a Japanese coast guard plane died on Tuesday after the airplane collided with a Japan Airways flight on a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.
The Japan Airways plane, an Airbus A350, caught fireplace quickly after it landed and collided with the coast guard airplane.
The Japanese coast guard airplane was carrying six individuals because it was making ready to fly to Niigata metropolis on the nation’s western coast for earthquake aid, NHK reported. Just one crew member had been evacuated from the coast guard plane.
In the meantime, all 379 passengers and crew on board the Japan Airways plane had been safely evacuated. The flight, JL516, was coming from Hokkaido to Tokyo.
Efforts had been underneath approach to extinguish the hearth. The airport had closed all its runways after the incident, reported Reuters.
WATCH: An enormous fireplace on the tarmac at #Tokyo’s Haneda airport when a Japan Airways jet collided with a #Japan Coast Guard plane, in response to NHK. Fortunately all 379 passengers and crew on board the flight (arriving from Sapporo) had been safely evacuated with no accidents. @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/Td3C6798uO
— Janis Mackey Frayer (@janisfrayer) January 2, 2024
Tuesday’s incident comes a day after a wave of 155 earthquakes hit Japan. Not less than 48 individuals had died.
The largest quake was of seven.6 magnitude, with the epicentre 42 kilometres northeast of Anamizu city on the Noto Peninsula within the Ishikawa prefecture, triggering a tsunami. The earthquakes toppled buildings, prompted a significant fireplace at a port and tore aside roads.
Watch: Japan Airways airplane bursts into flames after collision throughout touchdown at airport in Tokyo