Transcripts of traffic control instructions released by authorities appeared to show the Japan Airlines plane had been given permission to land, but the coastguard aircraft had been told to taxi to a holding point near the runway.
Video showed passengers being evacuated from the burning Airbus A350 by escape slides in relative calm and apparently without hand luggage, in an operation hailed as a "miracle".
The cabin crew of the Japan Airlines aircraft that collided with another plane and burst into flames at Tokyo's Haneda Airport did an "incredible job" by quickly evacuating all 367 passengers, an expert said Tuesday.