good evening. all of the 379 passengers and crew on board ajapan airlines plane had a miraculous escape when it became engulfed in flames after a collision with a smaller coastguard aircraft as it came in to land in tokyo. when you see these images it is extraordinary to think all on board got out. but five of the six people on board the other plane were killed. they had been preparing to deliver aid to people affected by the powerful earthquake injapan the day before. from tokyo suranjana tewari reports. the moment a japan airlines passenger plane skids down the tarmac at tokyo s haneda airport, after a collision with a smaller plane operated by japan s coastguard. chaos and confusion follows, as smoke can be seen billowing from an engine. amateur video from inside the cabin shows passengers looking on in panic. more than 370 passengers and crew managed to escape unharmed. on board safety procedures appear to have worked. the plane had taken off from sapporo on hokkaido is
Good evening. all of the 379 passengers and crew on board ajapan airlines plane had a miraculous escape when it became engulfed in flames after a collision with a smaller coastguard aircraft as it came in to land in tokyo. when you see these images it is extraordinary to think all on board got out. but five of the six people on board the other plane were killed. they had been preparing to deliver aid to people affected by the powerful earthquake injapan the day before. from tokyo suranjana tewari reports. the moment a japan airlines passenger plane skids down the tarmac at tokyo s haneda airport, after a collision with a smaller plane operated by japan s coastguard. chaos and confusion follows, as smoke can be seen
And overwhelmed the aircraft. translation: i could only see the fire in the engine. - after we calmly got off the plane and went to a place far from the aircraft, i saw that the fire had spread in only about 10, 15 minutes. translation: i can only say it was a miracle. - we could have died if we didn t evacuate at that point. given the size of the japan airlines plane and the number of passengers and crew on board, it s really miraculous that so many managed to escape unharmed, on that plane at least. we now understand that on the plane operated by the coastguard, five people have died who were on that plane, with one person managing to escape. japan is known for its incredibly strong transport safety record. translation: we will work with the transport ministry. to determine the cause of the accident. the scene needs to be
Billowing from an engine. amateur video from inside the cabin shows passengers looking on in panic. more than 370 passengers and crew managed to escape unharmed. on board safety procedures appear to have worked. the plane had taken off from sapporo on hokkaido island in northern japan. the coastguard says its plane was travelling to ishikawa prefecture, the epicentre of a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck just over 2a hours earlier. it was going to deliver food and help with rescue operations. what first seemed to be a small blaze on the passenger plane quickly took hold