Haneda airport with the coast guard plane. records show red warning lights embedded in the tarmac were broken at haneda airport for seven days leading up to the accident. and on the day of the accident. five crew members aboard the coast guard plane were killed, one injured. and another possible clue to the tragedy, japanese officials have just released a transcript covering over four minutes of communications between air traffic control and the two planes involved. just moments before the collision, the control tower says to the coast guard plane, referring to its tail number, quote, ja 722 a, tokyo tower, good evening, number one, taxi to holding point c 5. cnn s analysis indicates that that is likely a command to tax to a point short of the ra runw. but an l analysts say it is usu
Search continues for survivors. officials say at least 79 people are still missing from ishikawa prefecture. bad weather, impassable roads and frequent aftershocks are making the search more difficult. extent of the damage is still unknown and officials feel time is running out to save any remaining survivors who would been trapped for three days now. investigators in japan have new clues about what may have caused the deadly collision at a tokyo airport. according to nhk, the pilots on the japan airlines passenger jet say they didn t see the smaller coast guard plane on the runway before the collision. and records show run way warning lights had been out of service for several days. brian todd reports. reporter: as investigators sift through the charred wreckage, new information on what may have caused this horrific deadly accident when a japan airlines passenger plane collided on the run way at
Nation, japan, where people are culturally predisposed to listen to orders and follow rules and they did. they did not pull out their karaoke bags, they complied walking in some cases up a steep hill to the tail, to slide down. and time is that. i cannot. in 90 seconds hundreds of people including children under the age of two got off that plane and into safety. miles o brien, my heart is racing as we are, talking and we know the crew of the coast guard plane, not as fortunate. thank you so much. wow. unbelievable. the former world number one naomi osaka making a long-awaited comeback after spending over a year away from tennis. how did she do? i will tell l you next..
Emergency slides and the fire eventually caused the plane to completely collapse. the pilot of the coast guard aircraft was also able to escape but sadly the remaining five crew members on the coast guard plane were killed before they could get out. they were getting ready to take off and bring aid to western japan where rescuers are still searching for survivors from a powerful 7.6 magnitude quake that hit new year s day. i was shocked. you never know what will happen. there was an earthquake yesterday, too. once i got here there s the fire. you just never know. i can only say it was a miracle. we could have died if we were late in evacuating. japanese media is reporting police are investigating whether professional negligence caused the crash. the airline has not explained how the jet collided wind the coast guard plane, only saying it was making a, quote, normal entry and landing. as for the earthquake, at least 57 people were killed by the initial quake and after shocks with
Stops and flames spread further. incredibly all the passengers and crew aboard the japan airlines plane, including 8 children under 2 years old, were able to evacuate safely just over a threatenning injuries. this was an extraordinary performance by the flight crew. this accident will go down as a benchmark and will be studied extensively goingcess of getting the folks off the plane. reporter: japan says the crew was cleared to land before the collision. japanese authorities say they had 90 seconds to get everyone off the plane and some of the exits were not operational and everyone had to get out near the front. translator: we could smell smoke. the passengers were not panicking a lot. reporter: experts say the passengers deserve praise, that if a lot of them had stopped on the way out to grab luggage or