Japan Airlines: Five People On Board Coastguard Plane Dead
Five people who were on board the coastguard plane have died, AFP news agency quotes Japan’s transport minister as saying.
State broadcaster NHK has also reported five dead. The captain escaped but is severely injured, it adds.
It’s believed the coastguard aircraft, which was taking food to areas hit by Monday’s powerful earthquake, collided with the Japan Airlines plane as it landed on the runway.
Posting on X, his office says he wants to ensure that officials “quickly ascertain the damage situation”.
He also wants to “strive to provide appropriate information to the public”.
osh Coultas who was in Tokyo Haneda Airport has described his emotions as news filtered through the terminal about the Japan Airlines fire on the runway.
He tells the BBC it was scary “watching the airport freeze”.
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Source: BBC
