more specific. if they were holding short, they should not have been on the on runway. reporter: according to the transcript the coast guard plane seems to acknowledge the command. the coast guard crew responding, quote, taxi to holding point c 5. ja 722 a number 1. thank you. we ve also learned from japan airlines that the in-delight announcement system on the passenger plane malfunctioned during the evacuation. so the cabin crew used a megaphone and their own voices to direct people off the burning aircraft. everyone on board, nearly 400 people, survived. a lot of us were skeptical on these big wide bodied aircraft where it was practical to get a group that large out of an aircraft in that much time. and here we have a real life demonstration that it can be done. reporter: the passengers giving new accounts of their ordeal. translator: i heard an explosion about ten minutes after we all got o off the plan. we would h have e been in troubf we had left evenen a little lat.
haneda airport with the coast guard plane. records show red warning lights embedded in the tarmac were broken at haneda airport for seven days leading up to the accident. and on the day of the accident. five crew members aboard the coast guard plane were killed, one injured. and another possible clue to the tragedy, japanese officials have just released a transcript covering over four minutes of communications between air traffic control and the two planes involved. just moments before the collision, the control tower says to the coast guard plane, referring to its tail number, quote, ja 722 a, tokyo tower, good evening, number one, taxi to holding point c 5. cnn s analysis indicates that that is likely a command to tax to a point short of the ra runw. but an l analysts say it is usu
runway at and hea airport with a japanese coast guard plane. publicly available records show that red warning lights embedded in the tarmac, lights to siped from pilots from mistakenly tax exon to runways were broken in the seven days leading up to the accident. five crew members aboard the coast guard plane was killed and up injured. also to the, another possible clue to the tragedy. japanese officials have just released a transcript covering over four minutes of communication between air traffic control and the two planes involved. moments before the collision, the control tower says to the coast guard plane leaving to its tail number, quote, ja 722a tokyo tower, good evening. number one, taxi to holding point c-5. cnn s analysis indicates that s likely a command to taxi to a point short of the runway but not on the runway, but cnn analysts say the command is usually more specific telling a taxying plane to, quote, hold short of crossing another
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
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