live, the plane on fire at tokyo airport. stay with us on bbc news. hello. a new year, but another named storm. this morning the met office have named storm henk, the weather system which is crossing the uk today set to bring potential for damaging and disruptive winds. with it, they ve issued a met office amber weather warning for strong winds across parts of the south west, south east wales, the m4 corridor, south midlands towards east anglia. these are where the peak gusts are likely to be 60, maybe 70mph, causing some problems, but even more widely across the south we could still see winds top 60mph outside that warning area. some very strong winds today in the north of scotland. in between, the winds much lighter, but rain could be more of an issue. rain s the added feature to this storm, causing some flooding potentially across parts of wales, the midlands. that rain this afternoon sliding across northern england, the far south of scotland and just clips the east of northern irel
runway in the case of the relief aircraft, or landing in the case of the airliner. that is theoretical. this is the heat of the moment. literally seconds to make such decisions. something has gone wrong which has caused that collision on the runway. which has caused that collision on the runway- which has caused that collision on the runwa . , ., the runway. interesting that we were talkin: the runway. interesting that we were talking about the runway. interesting that we were talking about this the runway. interesting that we were talking about this earlier, the runway. interesting that we were talking about this earlier, the - talking about this earlier, the scale of the fire as a result has been quite dramatic and david deas, who we were speaking to, he said he found that surprising, the scale of the fire. tell us about the fact is you think might be at play on that side. ~ ., . ., , you think might be at play on that side. ~ ., , , ., ., , side. well, of course, we had a ve
out. we don t know about the others. tell us a bit about the scale of the fire afterwards. although passengers have got off quite quickly, presumably it will be alarming for airlines and airports and anyone who deals with passenger safety to see how quickly the fire spread afterwards and that is a very new plane, the a350 or so will that be in part to do with the materials they use these days to build planes? it will definitely be part of the investigation to establish whether thatis investigation to establish whether that is indeed a feature, whether the construction of a largely composite fuselage has contributed to that but actually for this type of event, a severe collision like this, we would be unsurprised to actually see the size of that fire. the important thing is whether we protect the occupants of the aircraft during that initial phase of the fire. although it looks shocking and particularly so because it happened that night, obviously a very bright fireball, actually we may
let s return to these shotss, the fire engine seem to have got closer now to the plane and the fire crew on the ground, so there must be a sense that they are getting this fire somewhat under control. earlier on they were having to attack it from further back because of the sheer size of the flames and the whole of the plane disintegrated or was starting to disintegrate as those flames tore through it. we now know that 379 passengers and crew were safely evacuated before the fire took hold. they managed to evacuate as the plane was on the ground but there was already smoke in the cabin from some of the footage we have seen. we know that five of the six crew on the coastguard aircraft are unaccounted for. one of them escaped.
actions. but positive and negative. there s a lot of focus on the fact that in many accidents we see human factors mentioned as in some cases the leading cause. but actually usually there are many factors around that, and the bit that sometimes we forget is that human performance is often a very positive thing. so we may find for example on the crew of the landing aircraft that their decision to continue with the landing and land the way they did might have actually saved more lives than if they, for example, had tried to go around. we don t know the circumstances of that yet. that is a fascinating the circumstances of that yet. that is a fascinating area the circumstances of that yet. that is a fascinating area because that decision, presumably if you have something on fire, you want to come into land but, as you say, you don t necessarily know whether there is something else on the ground that would cause more of a problem. that would cause more of a problem. that would have been