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.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•6 months ago

    Interesting design issue when the nose gear collapses, the bow slide deploys at a very shallow angle making for slow descents. While the stern slides are at a very steep angle, looking pretty scary to jump down.

    There are up to 8 slides on a 350, and it appears they deployed 4 3 - skipping the midship slides that were in the engines-on-fire and still spinning zone.