passengers and crew on board the japan airlines flight, which is on fire still, did manage to evacuate from the plane. it is quite a dramatic situation at an airport, quite an unusual scenario, isn t it? yes, that is right. the coastguard saying that the aeroplane that was involved telling nhk was an ma 722, quite a small plane, it has propellers on either side of its wings. so obviously this other passenger plane, significantly bigger and quite a collision for it to have caused, not only that ball of fire on the runway, but also the fire that is spreading through the passenger plane. yes, as you say, more than 300 people on board and about 12 crew on board the japan
yesterday 24 hours ago and now these incredible visuals coming in from haneda airport in tokyo. presumably that isn t at this haneda airport in tokyo. presumably that isn t at this stage haneda airport in tokyo. presumably that isn t at this stage any that isn t at this stage any suggestion or confirmation the two events could be linked is there? m0. events could be linked is there? no, absolutely not. events could be linked is there? iifr, absolutely not. it does seem to be two separate situations, separate incidents. this was a passenger plane. nhk, the local media here were reporting that there were roughly 400 passengers on board this plane that is now in flames and firefighters are desperately trying to douse the flames on one of the runways at haneda airport. but nhk reporting, japan airlines airline officials saying all 400 people have escaped but we haven t managed to confirm thatjust
ha ened. , ., , to be investigating exactly what ha ened. , . , ., happened. there is a bit of confusion happened. there is a bit of confusion on happened. there is a bit of confusion on the happened. there is a bit of confusion on the numbers. happened. there is a bit of- confusion on the numbers. originally confusion on the numbers. 0riginally we had 400 passengers, then it went to 367 and the latest figure i am seeing is 379 passengers, according to japan airlines. i wonder why there is confusion on the numbers of passengers, do you have any further information about that? it is passengers, do you have any further information about that? information about that? it is not clear. it wasn t information about that? it is not clear. it wasn t even information about that? it is not clear. it wasn t even clear- information about that? it is not i clear. it wasn t even clear whether there were passengers on this flight. i mean, we saw the fire start, it was quite isolated on one
or at least a big spread of the fire quite quickly? quite quickly? that s right. when the lane quite quickly? that s right. when the plane first quite quickly? that s right. when the plane first landed, quite quickly? that s right. when the plane first landed, there - quite quickly? that s right. when. the plane first landed, there seem to be an explosion that the aeroplane left behind. then it landed with its nose down i quite quickly this fire has spread from just one area of the plane behind one of the wings to the entire plane now. the entire plane is now on fire and we can see those visuals, firefighters trying to douse those flames and get the fire out. but it does seem to be spreading extremely rapidly. what ever did spark the fire does seem to be quite significant and as i mentioned, haneda airport in tokyo has now closed all of its runway so that is likely to be quite a lot of disruption to travel and all of the flights that are coming into and
that is on fire we can see on our screens is a japan airlines flight. it did have passengers on board but miraculously we do understand from nhk, the local media, the local channel here that roughly all 400 passengers and crew managed to escape this fire. the passengers and crew managed to escape this fire. passengers and crew managed to escape this fire. the latest figures we are seeing escape this fire. the latest figures we are seeing reportedly - escape this fire. the latest figures we are seeing reportedly 367 - we are seeing reportedly 367 passengers evacuated from the japan airlines aeroplane so they have revised that down from the rough estimate. sorry, i didn t mean to interrupt you, you were saying? you are absolutely interrupt you, you were saying? gm. are absolutely right, nhk saying 367 passengers and crew all managed to escape. we did see an escape slide deployed before this fire became so big, but we didn t see any passengers coming off the plane. it was quite amazi