Overview

• Japan Airlines Flight 516 collided with a coast guard plane on the runway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, resulting in a fiery crash.
• Both pilots claim they had permission to use the runway, but a transcript of air traffic control communications does not show the coast guard plane receiving clear takeoff clearance.
• All 379 passengers and crew members of Flight 516 survived, evacuating the burning plane in 18 minutes, while five crew members of the coast guard plane were killed.
• Investigators are focusing on the communication between traffic control and each pilot to determine why the two planes ended up on the same runway.
• The coast guard plane was on a mission to deliver relief goods to earthquake survivors in central Japan.