Around 400 passengers and crew safely evacuated the plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, but five people aboard a coast guard aircraft involved in the collision were killed, officials said.

A passenger plane burst into flames as it landed at a Tokyo airport Tuesday, after a collision with a coast guard aircraft that killed five people, officials said.

All 379 passengers and crew were able to make it out of the Japan Airlines plane, Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito said at a news conference. The coast guard pilot escaped but five crew members were killed, he added.

The coast guard aircraft was going to fly earthquake relief to Niigata prefecture on the country’s west coast after a series of strong tremors killed at least 48 people and left widespread damage, Saito said at a news conference. There was no immediate information about the cause of the incident, he said.

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    All 379 passengers and crew were able to make it out of the Japan Airlines plane, Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito said at a news conference.

    Dramatic footage from the Japanese public broadcaster NHK showed plumes of orange fire and black smoke engulfing the passenger jet as it landed at Haneda Airport in the country’s capital.

    The Transport Safety Board will investigate the incident immediately, he said in a joint news conference with coast guard officials.

    NHK reported the plane was JAL Flight 516, which had taken off from New Chitose Airport in the northern Japanese region of Hokkaido at 4:15 p.m. local time (2:15 a.m.

    Yoshio Seguchi, an official from the coast guard, expressed his condolences to everyone impacted by the incident.

    “May the souls of those who lost their lives rest in peace, and extend I my deepest condolences to the bereaved family.”

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