Pictures show the aircraft on fire while it is travelling along the runway at the busy airport.
The important bits, since it wasn’t clear to me if people were trapped on board:
The plane, which had taken off from Sapporo, collided with a coast guard plane, NHK said, citing authorities.
All 379 passengers and crew on board were evacuated, media reports quoted the airline as saying.
The plane hit a Japan Coast Guard plane on landing. Five of the six crew members of the JCG plane are missing.
Edit: now the news is saying two are dead, and the captain is in critical condition.
Now …
Police in Tokyo confirmed reports that the five coastguard crew members had died, and said the pilot was severely injured.
2024 is not here to play, ffs.
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2020, season 5
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2020 - S05E01 - Earthquake Aftershock Plane Crash [Season Premier]
The death toll from the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan’s west coast on Monday has risen to at least 30, according to Ishikawa prefecture authorities. More than 35 aftershocks greater than a magnitude of 2.5 have struck near the epicenter of Japan’s earthquake in the past 24 hours, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Later, Japan Airlines jet bursts into flames after collision with earthquake relief plane at Tokyo Haneda airport. TV-MA, 104 mins
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As I saw it:
- 20-20 hindsight (pandemic preparedness)
- 20-20 won
- 20-20 too, Respiratory boogaloo
- 20-20 free?
- 20-20 fore (as in “looking forward”)
We should be as prepared as possible to handle 2024 and come out on good shape.
Last updated Jan 2, 11:20 UTC; this post is superseded here
JAL flight 516 (registration JA13XJ) Airbus A350-900 from Sapporo to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport collided while landing with a coast guard aircraft JA722A De Havilland Canada DHC-8-315Q MPA “Dash-8” that belonged to Haneda Air Base, which was awaiting departure to Niigata with aid following the New Year’s Day Earthquake.
All 367 passengers and 12 crew members escaped the passenger plane, while five people on the coast guard plane were still unaccounted for, NHK reported.
The pilot of the coast guard aircraft had evacuated and contacted officials.
CNN reports that 17 passengers on board JAL516 were injured.
A later press statement from Japan Airlines SVP Noriyuki Aoki clarified that “only four” passengers went to hospital for “feeling unwell,” of which two for smoke inhalation, while the pilots are now being interviewed about the final moments of the flight. Eight children were among the 367 passengers.
Regarding JA722A, CNN reports:
Five crew members died on the second aircraft, a De Havilland Canada DHC-8, according to Japan’s transport minister, Tetsuo Saito. Public broadcaster NHK said the plane’s captain was in a critical condition.
Airbus has also issued a statement that a team of Airbus investigators are joining the French BEA and Japanese JTSB.
Thanks for that detailed report. 👍
Notice how there are flames coming through the fuselage above the windows? The fire has burned through the airframe.
That airframe is a complete and total loss.
Oh, it very much is.
And in case the picture doesn’t show, here it is.
It’ll be fine. Just use a little Bondo…
Oh wow, that’s incredible.
The first a350 hull loss. The type only started flying in 2013 and entered service in 2015. This particular unit was about 2 years old. This is a very new plane to have completely destroyed. What a shame.
First loss of any composite hull passenger aircraft. The fact it survived long enough for it to be evacuated is a great testament to the design.
The runway was also on fire. :/
Wow, the first thing is footage without a talking head over it.
I must be dreaming.
Looks like it is pretty certain the coast guard aircraft didn’t follow instructions to hold short of the runway. Some who have listened to ATC recordings indicate they were cleared to a runway intersection, and they failed to read it back. I wonder what, if any, Autonomous Runway Incursion Warning System (ARIWS) system they had and if its alerts were missed by controllers.
Edit: An ATC transcript is out showing the Coast Guard aircraft was cleared to taxi to holding point C5 and was told they were #1 for departure, but was not cleared to enter the runway (although I find the phraseology poor, with no direct instruction to hold short of the runway, but perhaps that is standard in Japan). They did read back the instructions correctly. However, testimony from the surviving pilot indicated he thought he had takeoff clearance. A likely case of expectation bias, where the pilots heard what they expected to be told rather than what they were actually told. https://avherald.com/h?article=5132b9fe&opt=0
