good morning it our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 2, 2024 and we begin with breaking news. japan airlines plane bursting into flames as it touched down at haneda airport according to nhk. cnn s will ripley is live for us in tokyo. will, this just happened. information still coming in. what can you tell us at this hour? reporter: the headline here is that all nearly 400 people on board this plane, as horrific as the pictures look, they walked away. they evacuated safely after what appears to be some sort of a collision between two planes on the runway. this airport sits right next to a japan coast guard base. it is right in the same area right along the bay. and what nhk is reporting and cnn working to confirm independently is that as this japan airliner from a very, very popular tourist destination especially this time of year, especially on a holiday weekend, that is why the plane was packed with 367 passengers an
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1960s and has one of the best safety records for public transit in the world despite all the natural disasters that japan has to endure, how did this happen that the two planes ended up in the same place colliding in such a violent manner. those will be very hard questions that japan will be asking. if past disasters tell us anything, japan will do everything they can to learn exactly what happened from this and take very detailed and specific steps to try to prevent it from happening again. that is how it works here and why it is so safe here most of the time. frankly, that is probably why the passengers and crew of the packed airplane that is now in flames were able to get off safely because when you get on board a japanese airline, that safety video, they are in the aisles all airlines are diligent, but they are particularly so here in japan. and it seems as if those efforts certainly would have paid off in this extraordinary situation