On Tuesday, the smaller aircraft and a Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger jet collided on the runway.Transcripts of air traffic control instructions that were made public shortly before the tragedy attested to the JAL Airbus A350'sclearance to land.
The Coast Guard was not given permission to take off. Dash-8 bomber.The coast guard aircraft was instructed to "taxi to holding point C5", a location on the airfield's taxiway system where aircraft wait for authorization to enter the active runway for takeoff, while the JAL flight was cleared to land on Haneda's runway 34R.
The coast guard plane's captain, the lone survivor among the six crew members, told investigators he had authorization to access the runway that the JAL flight was approaching, although the transcripts seem to contradict him.
Following the incident, all 379 occupants of the cutting-edge JAL Airbus, including the crew, were safely evacuated, according to authorities.
At approximately 16:00 local time (07:00 GMT), Japan Airlines Flight 516 took off from the New Chitose airport in Sapporo and arrived at Haneda just before 18:00.
Not long after it landed, the airplane caught fire.One passenger told the Kyodo news agency, "I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed." "I noticed sparks outside the window, and gas flooded the cabin.
Flight JL516 was "involved in a collision with a Japan coastguard aircraft during its landing at Haneda Airport, resulting in a fire on the runway," according to a JAL statement.The coast guard plane was en route to assist in the rescue and relief operations that followed the Ishikawa earthquake on Monday. It was one of four planes sent to the epicenter of the earthquake.
Police in Tokyo verified within hours of the fire that the pilot was seriously hurt and that five members of the coastguard crew had perished.
According to Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the government was working to ensure that the mishap would not prevent supplies for earthquake relief from being delivered."This is a great regret as the crew members performed their duties with a strong sense of mission and responsibility for the victims of the disaster area," stated the captain.
According to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, which cited fire officials, at least 14 of the passengers and staff who were removed off the JAL flight had minor injuries.This is the first significant mishap involving an Airbus A350, a new class of aircraft composed primarily of cutting-edge materials like carbon fiber-reinforced plastic. A group of experts from the aircraft maker is traveling to Japan to support the investigation.
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