Japan Airlines plane in flames on runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport
Japan Airlines plane in flames on runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport
Pictures show the aircraft on fire while it is travelling along the runway at the busy airport.
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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
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Last updated Jan 2, 11:20 UTC; this post is superseded here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.
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Thanks for that detailed report. 👍
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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.
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Oh, it very much is.
And in case the picture doesn’t show, here it is.
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Oh wow, that's incredible.
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The runway was also on fire. :/
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2024 is not here to play, ffs.