Investigation Underway as Japan Airlines and Coast Guard Plane Collide at Tokyo's Haneda Airport
Both pilots claim runway permission, while all 379 passengers and crew of the airliner survive fiery crash
- 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.
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