other item, people would have died. we have had very similar situations here including planes that were engulfed in flames like this and in most cases some got off but some stop to collect baggage or put on their shoes. here passengers reported nobody did. reporter: the japanese coast guard plane was on the ground when the incoming passenger plane hit it in its attempt to land. a japanese airline safety official says preliminary reports indicate the pilots did not spot any aircraft on the runway before landing. they could have done a go-around. ridiculous how unorganized these things can be. reporter: coast guard plane was involved in relief efforts for victims of the earthquake in japan the day about before. it is not clear who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. but safety experts say these moments, takeoffs and landings, are also at most dangerous junctures of any flight. that is when you are in the
the ground. exactly the kind of runway incursion the mtsb has warned about in the u.s. after so many close calls in 2023. the crash happened where precisely the jal airbus 350 had been cleared to land. the question for japanese investigators why was that smaller coast guard plane on the same runway, possibly preparing for take off? of the six coast guard crew members on an earthquake relief mission, only the captain survived now in critical condition. but all 379 people onboard the passenger plane survived including eight infants precisely what flight crews in the u.s. and abroad train for. regardless of the size of the aircraft, the faa requires within 15 seconds of aircraft stopping for an accident, it must start evacuating. everybody out through the windows, through the doors in just 90 seconds. that faa rule is the global standard. get out, leave everything. critical to surviving, leaving everything behind and
let s see what happens. right now, officials in japan are investigating what went wrong after yesterday s fatal tokyo run way crash. japanese airline flight reportedly cleared to land before hitting a coast guard plane that was on the ground killing five coast guard members on board that plane. but, miraculously, all 379 of the people on board the commercial flight got out. one passenger saying, quote: the entire cash bin was filled with smoke within minutes. it was chaos. another one adding it was getting hot inside the plane. and i thought, to be honest, i wouldn t survive. pilot michael san toreio is vice president of the southwest pilot association, he joins us right now. michael, good morning to you. good morning, steve. you watch that video and smoke in the cabin and pan over to the left and there is just an orange glow from the wing being on fire. that s terrifying. yeah. i can imagine passengers looking out the window and seeing that
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a narrative now, about the links in the accident chain that led to this disaster that killed five people on the coast guard plane, and we now have two really big clues. the first, that the air traffic control transcript shows that the coast guard plane was told to hold short of the runway, but not go onto it, and the second, as you mentioned, the warning lights that would ve kept the plane from taxiing onto the runway were out of service. this is the handout that japanese aviation officials gave to reporters today, that essentially lays out the tiktok of the transitions from the air traffic control tower at haneda to the coast guard airplane, and also to the japan airlines airliner that was inbound to the same runway, and it essentially shows that the japan airlines flight was cleared to land, and the coast guard plane was told to hold short of the runway, but not taxi onto the runway. this is the key part of the transcript that shows that. the tail number of the coast guard plane, ja7