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2/1/2024 10.32pm – UPDATED TO 2/1/2024 10.32pm
Five Coast Guard members died after their plane collided with a commercial flight at Tokyo airport, an accident that caused a major fire that forced the evacuation of the Japan Airlines commercial plane’s 379 occupants, confirmed the Japanese authorities.
The event occurred when Japan Airlines flight 516 coming from Sapporo (north of the country) collided with the coast guard plane that had just landed at 5.47pm local time (9.47am GMT) in Haneda, one of the two international airports that serve the Japanese capital.
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One of the commercial flight’s engines then caught fire, although the fire was later put out by firefighters, while all the airport’s runways were closed.
Of the 379 occupants of the Japan Airlines plane (367 passengers and 12 crew members) evacuated, 17 were injured, while of the six occupants of the Coast Guard plane only the captain, seriously injured, managed to survive.
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2024-01-03 03:32:54
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