Horrific video from inside the cabin of a Japanese plane that collided with a military plane shows passengers screaming in the smoke-filled cabin as the horrific incident unfolded at a Tokyo-area airport on Tuesday evening.
Japan Airlines Flight 516 was landing at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport when it collided with a Coast Guard jet before sliding down the runway in a fireball.
“I thought I was going to die,” an X user writes in Japanese with horrible footage.
Terrified users caught it a moment the plane raced on the runway with a flash of orange light from the aircraft’s left engine before making rough contact with the runway.
Passengers heard screaming as the main compartment of the Airbus A350 was filled with smoke, according to another clip posted by the social media user.
“I felt a boom like we hit something and jerked upwards as soon as we landed,” a passenger on the JAL flight told Kyodo news agency. “I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin was filled with gas and smoke.”
The Japan Airlines flight was returning to Tokyo after departing from Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido an hour and a half earlier.
Footage from the airport’s control tower appeared to show the passenger plane was given a clear path to “continue approach” to land, according to The Guardian, citing a live broadcast of air traffic signals.
“Our understanding is that [permission to land] has been given,” a Japan Airlines official told the newspaper.
All 367 passengers and 12 crew members were safely evacuated via emergency inflatable slides when the plane caught fire.
Fourteen people on the passenger plane were injured, according to Japan Airlines, but none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.
Footage from inside the smoke-filled cabin captured screaming passengers as the plane raced down the runway. via REUTERS An orange tint emanates from the left side window coming from the engine after the passenger plane crashed into the second plane. via REUTERS Passengers evacuate the burning plane using emergency slides as flames engulf the plane. via REUTERS
Bombardier’s Japanese Coast Guard Dash-8 maritime patrol aircraft, a twin-engine aircraft, was lining up for takeoff when the passenger plane crashed into it.
Five of the six Coast Guard members were killed while the 39-year-old flight captain escaped but was injured.
The military plane was headed to Niigata Airport to deliver aid to those trapped in the powerful earthquake that struck on New Year’s Day, which killed at least 62 people, military officials said.
A security camera captured the moment the Japan Airlines flight was engulfed in flames and hit the runway at an airport in the Tokyo area on January 2, 2024. TBS NEWS DIG / Youtube Japan Airlines Flight 516 caught fire after crashing into the Japanese coast Air traffic controllers during landing on January 2, 2024. JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images Emergency crews race to a burning plane after it crashed on Tuesday afternoon. AP
An aerial view shows the charred remains of the passenger plane on the side of the runway surrounded by fire retardant hours after it caught fire.
While firefighters were putting out the fire, the burning part of the plane began to break apart.
Airport emergency personnel extinguished the fire in nearly six hours.
No official cause of the crash is known, but police are expected to investigate the accident on suspicion of professional negligence, NHK television reported.
An aerial view shows the charred remains of the passenger plane on the side of the runway surrounded by fire retardant hours after it caught fire. ZUMAPRESS.com The wreckage of a Japan Airlines plane lies on the side of the runway at Tokyo International Airport in Haneda on Jan. 3, 2024. AFP via Getty Images
The airport was closed for several hours but reopened and still had departure delays of at least 45 minutes and arrivals of more than an hour and 15 minutes, according to FlightAware.
With Postal wire
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