All Safe After Japan Airlines Plane Collides With Coast Guard Aircraft During Tokyo Landing
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A Japan Airlines passenger plane erupts in flames after colliding with a Japan Coast Guard plane while landing at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. All 367 passengers and 12 crew members safely evacuated, but 5 coast guard members were killed.
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Video shows a fireball as the Japan Airlines plane touched down. The passenger cabin quickly filled with smoke, sparking a chaotic evacuation down emergency slides.
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Luck and skill of the flight crew were credited for getting everyone off the fiery plane so rapidly. Aviation experts called it “a miraculous job.”
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The cause of the accident is under investigation. The planes collided as the coast guard aircraft was taxiing and the passenger plane was landing.
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Japan Airlines crews train to fully evacuate passengers within 90 seconds. Getting passengers to leave belongings helped speed the evacuation.