Tokyo’s Haneda Airport : Japan Airlines’s Plane Bursts Into Flames

Japan Airlines‘s plane collided with a smaller coastguard aircraft when the plane landed on the runway at Haneda airport. Luckily, the passengers were evacuated safely, but some of the members of the coastguard plane died in the incident. More than 100 firetrucks rushed to the scene. Furthermore, the area turned orange as the flames from the aircraft continued evolving. The aircraft left a fiery trail down the runway. Besides, the investigation is underway.

The airplane explodes in fire at the runway

Details

Japan Airlines Flight 516 departed from Sapporo’s New Chitose airport at 16:00 (local time) and landed at Haneda at 17:46 (local time). Sapporo is a northern Japanese city. The plane carried 379 passengers. The plane landed normally, according to the pilots, and the pilots detected no sign of another aircraft.

The Incident

The Airbus A350-900 ignited after colliding with an earthquake relief aircraft on the runway. “I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed,“ a passenger reported. “I saw sparks outside the window, and the cabin filled with gas and smoke.“ The Coast Guard aircraft had 6 people in it, of which 5 died at the moment. The pilot was injured. A video showed the plane burning like a fireball.

Japan Airlines plane fire

Evacuation

Footage showed passengers escaping via an evacuation slide and running to safety. All 379 passengers, including 8 children under 2 years, were evacuated. Safety experts praised the crew for safely evacuating all the passengers. All runways were closed after the incident, stopping travel plans for thousands of passengers.

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