Japan Airlines A350 and Earthquake Relief Dash 8 Collide on Runway

While 379 survived, five lives were lost in a fiery accident at Haneda Airport in Japan.

Tuesday, January 02, 2024 at 12:33 PM ET

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A Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350 and a Coast Guard Dash 8 collided on runway at Haneda Airport (RJTT) near Tokyo. [Credit: Steven Byles - CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED/Wikimedia Commons]

Key Takeaways:

A Japan Airlines Airbus A350 collided with a Coast Guard relief plane at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport shortly after landing, resulting in a fiery incident.
All 379 passengers and crew aboard the Japan Airlines flight safely evacuated, but five of the six crew members on the Coast Guard plane perished.
The Coast Guard aircraft was en route to deliver earthquake relief supplies to western Japan following a recent major temblor.
Aviation authorities are investigating the cause of the collision, with details regarding prior communication between the aircraft or with the control tower currently unknown.

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Aviation authorities in Japan are trying to determine what caused the runway collision between a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 and a Coast Guard relief airplane at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (RJTT) on Monday.

According to CNN, the jet and the de Havilland DHC-8 collided shortly after the jet landed around 5 p.m. local time, after dark. Video captured from the terminal shows the jet skidding down the runway on a bed of flames. According to Japan Airlines, all 367 passengers and 12 crewmembers aboard were able to escape.