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we start with breaking news from japan. fire crews at tokyo s haneda international airport are tackling a serious blaze on board a japan airlines airbus a350 plane. these are live pictures, and across the last hour or so we ve seen flames steadily engulf the craft. reports suggest the plane collided with a coastguard plane on the runway. this was the moment the plane landed at haneda international. most of the 379 people on board the plane passengers and crew have been safely evacuated, according to japan airlines. of the several eye missing, that is from the coastguard plane involved in the collision. although several are missing a spokesman said the aircraft had
people try to get home to get back to school and to work and things like that. haneda is one of two international airports in tokyo. now with aeroplanes at a standstill because all the runways at haneda and that is likely to cause disruption. we saw a passenger plane attempting to land at haneda airport and it landed and left a ball of fire behind it. we think that is when it collided with a coastguard plane, which the coastguard has confirmed there was a collision with an aeroplane and the coastguard has confirmed to nhk local media here. and then the passenger plane continued on down the runway before coming to a halt. at that stage, the fire was quite isolated on one part
event happen. was it as it was landing, did it hit something on that landing? it happened in the dark, so as for what the crew could see, whether that aircraft was moving, moving rapidly, the coastguard aircraft, all of these things factored in and the flight deck crew will have had to make a split second decision, same for the cabin crew and so on. when we look at human factors in investigation we don tjust look for the errors people made, but also for their positive actions and in some cases thatis positive actions and in some cases that is more useful in terms of informing future training and so on. they will definitely take that not full blame approach and try to look at positives as well as identifying negatives. it at positives as well as identifying neuatives. , , ., , , ., negatives. it is interesting, as you sa , in negatives. it is interesting, as you say. in this negatives. it is interesting, as you say. in this case negatives. it is interesting, as you say, in this case
which is to protect the occupants and allow a fast evacuation, and of course the fire service focus will absolutely have been on protecting exits, making sure there was a clear path for people to evacuate from the aircraft. the airbus landed at 5:45pm local time, having made a shortjourney from northern japan. one person is believed to have escaped from the coastguard plane, which was on its way to the west of the country to deliver aid to a region that was hit hard by an earthquake yesterday, which claimed the lives of 48 people. the japanese prime minister said he wants officials to act quickly to ascertain the damage and provide information to the public. matt graveling, bbc news. alex macheras is an aviation analyst based in london. he gave me his reaction to the incident in tokyo. it s remarkable that we have witnessed what is the first whole loss of an airbus a350. this is the world s latest generation aircraft. and to the airlines that have