Japan Airlines plane erupts into flames as it lands at Tokyo's Haneda Airport

[Greg Hyde]

Japan Airlines plane erupts into flames as it lands at Tokyo's Haneda Airport

All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane have escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport, which killed five of the six crew on the smaller craft on Tuesday.

Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the JAL Airbus A350 airliner burst into flames as it skidded down the tarmac.

Video and images shared on social media showed passengers shouting inside the plane's smoke-filled cabin and running across the tarmac after escaping via an evacuation slide.
At one point a child's voice can be heard shouting: "Let us get out quickly!
Let us get out quickly!"

All 367 passengers and 12 crew were evacuated from the blazing airliner, but the fire was not extinguished until shortly after midnight, after burning for more than six hours, broadcaster TBS reported, citing the fire department.

"I was wondering what happened, and then I felt the airplane tilted to the side at the runway and felt a big bump," said Satoshi Yamake, 59, a telecommunications company worker who was on board. "The flight attendants told us to stay calm and instructed us to get off the plane."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-...port/103280258

First A350 major accident /hull loss
A350 evacuated with no losses.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/349537

[Robbie J]

YouTube video of the incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKLlrtNPx9Q

No-one yet knows how the two aircraft were on the tarmac at the same time. A lucky escape for those 367 JAL passengers!

[Adrian B]

There may be a question about approval for the coast guard to line up.

Former Australian air traffic controller Michelle Robson said from the preliminary report the coast guard aircraft wasn't cleared to enter the runway before the fateful crash occurred.

Source 9news Article

[Rowan McKeever]

The Aviation Herald says that the Dash 8 was handed off to a different tower frequency compared to the tower frequency the A350 was on.

https://www.avherald.com/h?article=5132b9fe&opt=0

[Greg Hyde]

Similar incident in LA in 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_An...unway_disaster

[Steve S... 2]

First composite plane to burn? Feedback there for the manufacturers in any case...

[MarkR]

Originally Posted by Steve S... 2

First composite plane to burn? Feedback there for the manufacturers in any case...

Think Ethiopian have that honour with a 787 although they repaired it.

[Laurent Sanhard]

another reason to watch the safety video / demonstration when you are on an aircraft , and know where the exits are . apparently the rear exits were not working . or were not able to be used .

Great work from the JAL crew to get everyone off safely !
could have easily been a much worse outcome.

[Rowan McKeever]

BBC is reporting that only 3 exits were usable during the evacuation, door L4 was certainly one of them. Imagine the cabin crew deemed L2/R2 and L3/R3 unusable due to the fire. There was a comment made early on (again in a BBC report) by one of the pax that no rear exits were available, I've surmised that he must have been seated in the forward cabin and meant that he and others around him were told to evacuate via L1/R1.

[Greg Hyde]

The crew followed the rule, if is red behind the door, don't open it (Fire & smoke)

I wonder if the PAX took their hand luggage