thejet, with nearly a00 people on board, continues down the runway with flames now belching from the rear of the aircraft. more extraordinary footage taken by a passenger inside the plane shows just how quickly the cabin filled with acrid smoke. but then what experts are describing as little short of miraculous. with frames rapidly engulfing the plane s fuselage, dozens of passengers can be seen sliding down escape chutes and running for their lives. all 379 passengers and crew on board escaped, some with minor injuries. tragically, the same is not true of the six crew on board the coastguard plane. five are dead, the pilot survived, but with serious injuries. dozens of fire trucks poured foam and water onto the plane, but it continued to burn for hours. the question now is, how did this happen? how did two aircraft end up
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0ur asia correspondent rupert wingfield hayes reports. this extraordinary footage caught on haneda airport s cctv system system shows the moment a japan airlines a350 struck a japanese coastguard plane that was, for some reason, on the same runway. thejet, with nearly 400 people on board, continues down the runway with flames now belching from the rear of the aircraft. more extraordinary footage taken by a passenger shows just how quickly the cabin filled with acrid smoke. but then what experts are describing as little short of miraculous. with frames rapidly engulfing the plane s fuselage, dozens of passengers can be seen sliding down escape chutes and running for their lives. all 379 passengers and crew on board escaped, some with minor injuries. tragically, the same is not true of the six crew on board the coastguard plane.
this is the scene live on the runway where the blaze seems to be under control. all of its 379 passengers and crew were safely evacuated, as matt graveling reports. a fireball engulfs the runway at japan s haneda airport. an airbus coming in to land collides with a coastguard plane. tragically, the five people on the smaller aircraft are killed. japan airlines flight 516 remained ablaze as it continued down the runway, with 379 people on board. inside, passengers watched as sparks flew past their windows. shouting. ..as the pilot brought the plane to a stop. everyone was safely evacuated. ijust came here to pick up a friend. it was pretty scary like, the whole airportjust froze. the people that were boarding planes all had to get off, planes just completely stopped everywhere and, yeah, it s kind of crazy. all runways were immediately closed. more than 70 fire engines tried to contain the blaze, which quickly spread through the whole body of the aircraft. it looks like the structure
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. let s get more on this story with sally gethin. she s an independent global aviation and travel analyst. i think this is something people across the world today will be remarking on. isn t it incredible that there were so few casualties when those two aircraft collided. what is your take on what happened today? i what is your take on what happened toda ? . , ., ., ., today? i agree with you, we have to focus on the today? i agree with you, we have to focus on the positives today? i agree with you, we have to focus on the positives here - today? i agree with you, we have to focus on the positives here and - t