A passenger plane carrying nearly 400 people burst into flames after a suspected collision with a Japanese Coast Guard plane in Tokyo on Tuesday.
All 379 passengers and crew onboard the passenger plane were able to evacuate safely as the plane burned, but five of the six passengers onboard the Coast Guard plane died as a result of the crash, according to local media. The incident took place on a runway at the Haneda Airport and involved Japanese Airlines flight JL516, which had just arrived from Chitose, a city on Hokkaido, Japan’s second largest island.
Footage posted online shows passengers running off the plane after it caught fire.
New footage shows passengers evacuating the Japan Airlines plane as it caught fire.
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