Japanese plane in near-catastrophic collision was cleared to land
This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on January 2, 2024. A Japan Airlines plane was in flames on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on January 2 after apparently colliding with a coast guard aircraft, media reports said.
Government officials pledged to investigate how the incident happened in a country that had not seen a serious commercial aviation accident for decades.
France's Airbus, which manufactured the JAL plane, said it would send a team of specialists to help Japanese authorities investigate.
Japanese investigators on Wednesday probed a near-catastrophic collision at Tokyo's Haneda Airport between a coast guard plane and a passenger jet that airline executives have said was given permission to land.
Five people on the coast guard aircraft died, but all 379 passengers and crew escaped to safety down emergency slides minutes before the Japan Airlines Airbus was engulfed in flames late Tuesday.
