According to reports from Japan's TBS TV station and the Japan Broadcasting Association, a fire broke out on the runway of Tokyo Haneda Airport in Japan on January 2, local time. A Japan Airlines plane caught fire. According to the latest report from Nippon Television (NTV) on the 2nd, the Japan Airlines plane that caught fire at Tokyo's Haneda Airport may have collided with a Japan Coast Guard plane.
Japan Airlines said that the 379 people on board had successfully escaped, but the latest news pointed out that there are currently 17 injured on the plane. The injuries are unknown and the identities have not been confirmed. The Japan Coast Guard plane that collided with a JAL plane carrying six people has confirmed that five people were killed and the captain was seriously injured.
According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), former JAL captain Hiroyuki Kobayashi pointed out that considering the speed of the fire's spread, the fuel in the fuel tank inside the wing should have been ignited during the impact. As for why the two planes collided? "I think it's possible that one of the planes misheard air traffic control (tower) instructions," Kobayashi said.
In addition, a netizen "Ta Ren" (タワーマン) who once served as an air traffic controller analyzed that it was probably an instruction error.
People from Tajikistan said that there are generally three types of airport runways, take-off, landing and "mixed use". There are many airports in Japan with only one restricted runway, so you can only "mix" takeoffs and landings on the same runway. As for Haneda Airport, there are four runways. Three runways are open today, one for takeoff, one for landing, and the last mixed runway, which is also the runway where the accident occurred today.
People from Tajikistan pointed out that judging from the scene footage, the Japan Security Agency aircraft was waiting to take off on the mixed runway at the time, while the JAL A350 flight was slowing down for landing. Under normal circumstances, there is a "stop line" at the front end of the runway for takeoff. The aircraft will not cross the stop line before it is allowed to take off. Therefore, it is very likely that the Security Agency aircraft had received the takeoff permission from the air traffic control officer and entered the runway to prepare for takeoff before it collided with the landing JAL passenger plane.
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