2024-01-03 09:22:00
Tokyo After two planes collided: Japan starts investigating the plane collision
The burned-out Japan Airlines plane at Haneda Airport in Tokyo
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01/03/2024, 10:22 a.m. 1 min.
The plane collision at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport concerns the authorities. Away from the scene of the accident, operations are now continuing once more.
A day following the spectacular collision of a Japanese passenger plane with a Coast Guard plane at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, the country’s transport authorities have begun investigating the fatal accident.
The Japan Transport Safety Board, a government agency responsible for serious accidents involving planes, trains and ships, is examining the burned-out wreckage, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported. A Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger plane collided with the coast guard plane the day before immediately following landing. Both caught fire.
While all 379 people on board the Airbus A350 passenger plane were able to leave the blazing plane without life-threatening injuries, any help came too late for five people on board the Coast Guard plane. Only the pilot of the Bombardier DHC8-300 got out; according to the media, he suffered serious injuries. The flames on the JAL plane were brought under control more than eight hours following the collision.
Plane collides in Tokyo: Haneda Airport back in operation
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida countered fears that the accident might hinder the rapid delivery of relief supplies to the earthquake region in the west of the country. The crashed coast guard plane wanted to bring relief supplies for the survivors of the series of earthquakes to the severely affected Noto Peninsula.
Meanwhile, JAL airline canceled more than 40 domestic flights to and from Haneda following its plane’s devastating collision with the Coast Guard plane. All Nippon Airways (ANA) also canceled dozens of flights. According to a statement from Toulouse, the affected aircraft manufacturer Airbus expressed sympathy for everyone affected by the accident on the day of the accident.
The A350-900 was therefore only two years old. The authorities will be provided with technical support in the investigation of the incident, it said. All runways at Japan’s busiest airport were temporarily closed on the day of the accident, but were able to be reopened except for the taxiway at the accident site.
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