Passenger Plane Explodes At Tokyo Airport After Colliding With Another Aircraft

A Japanese Airlines plane exploded while landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport after a deadly collision with another plane.

According to the public broadcaster NHK, the Japanese Airlines Airbus A-350, carrying 367 passengers, collided with a coastguard aircraft with six people on board. The passenger plane burst into flames, streaking across the runway while on fire.

All of the passengers and the 12 flight crew members on board have safely evacuated the plane, NHK said. Five of the six Coastguard members are unaccounted for as of now, and one member has been confirmed to have successfully escaped.

A passenger inside the aircraft took a video of the explosion in real-time, showing smoke filling the inside of the plane as passengers on board were instructed to evacuate.

死ぬかと思った pic.twitter.com/S7rDPmyssl

— あ (@alto_maple) January 2, 2024

The passenger plane, Flight 516, was scheduled to land in Haneda at 5:20 pm (local time) after it departed from New Chitose Airport in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido. The live footage from the airport at the time of writing showed a horrific scene with multiple fire trucks trying to contain the fire as alarms blaze in the background.

Your browser does not support video.