Five people who were on board the coastguard plane have died, AFP news agency quotes Japan‘s transport minister as saying.
State broadcaster NHK has also reported five dead. The captain escaped but is severely injured, it adds.
It’s believed the coastguard aircraft, which was taking food to areas hit by Monday’s powerful earthquake, collided with the Japan Airlines plane as it landed on the runway.
All 379 people on board the burning Japan Airlines plane were evacuated, the airline said
Summary
- Five people aboard a Japanese coastguard plane have died after their aircraft collided with a passenger plane at Tokyo’s Haneda airport
- The coastguard plane was due to deliver aid to areas hit by Monday’s deadly earthquake
- All 379 people on board the burning Japan Airlines plane were evacuated, the airline said
- Dramatic footage showed passengers fleeing the burning Japan Airlines plane on inflatable slides and running across the tarmac
- Fire ripped through the Japan Airlines flight 516 which had taken off from Hokkaido in northern Japan nearly two hours earlier
SOURCE: BBC NEWS
