Japan plane crash: Terrifying footage from INSIDE the burning Japan Airlines plane shows the moment it touches down as cabin fills with thick smoke
This is the moment a large plane carrying 379 passengers landed as smoke filled the cabin of an airport near Tokyo after crashing into a coast guard plane as it landed.
The Japan Airlines plane was engulfed by a raging fire today as it stood on the runway of Haneda Airport, in Ota City, Tokyo, with flames pouring from the passenger windows.
New footage taken from the plane shows passengers panicking as smoke fills the cabin. Some can be seen wearing masks and rags over their mouths in an attempt to limit the amount of smoke they inhale, while others scream in fear.
Another new clip showed smoke pouring from the side of the plane as it landed on the runway of Haneda Airport, the country's busiest, which held more than 26.5 million passengers in 2021.
Footage from the scene showed the passenger's escape slide protruding from one of the plane's doors being set on fire as more flames burned in the cabin.
Haneda Airport has closed all its runways after the shock crash, a spokesman said, while a Japan Airlines spokesman told local media that all 379 passengers and crew on board the plane – a two-year-old Airbus A-350 – at the time of the crash explosion were successfully evacuated from the stricken aircraft.
Smoke quickly filled the cabin of the flight, which crashed into a Coast Guard plane at Haneda Airport
Shocking footage showed the Japan Airlines plane engulfed by a raging fire as it stood on the runway of Haneda Airport in Ota City, Tokyo, as flames poured from the passenger windows
Firefighters were immediately deployed to the scene, with footage showing firefighters desperately trying to extinguish the flames with multiple hoses
A tower of smoke billowed from the burning wreckage of the plane at Haneda Airport
17-year-old Swede Anton Deibe, who was a passenger on the Japan Airlines plane, told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that “within a few minutes the entire cabin was filled with smoke.” We dropped to the ground. Then the emergency doors were opened and we threw ourselves into them.
'The smoke in the cabin stung terribly. It was hell. We have no idea where we are going, so we just run into the field. It was chaos,” added Deibe, who was traveling with his parents and sister.
The number of people injured during the flight and subsequent fire on the plane that traveled from New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, on the northern island of Hokkaido, to Haneda Airport, taking off at 4:00 PM local time (07:00 GMT). is currently unknown.
A Coast Guard official confirmed that a Coast Guard aircraft, a 16-year-old Bombardier Dash 8, was involved in the incident, with NHK reporting that one crew member escaped from that aircraft, but five others remained missing.
The coast guard plane is believed to have been waiting to depart for Niigata, about 160 miles from Tokyo, to deliver aid after the New Year's Day earthquake, which has killed at least 48 people so far.
The crash broke the nose gear of the Airbus carrying the passengers, and the right engine was left running while everyone was evacuated.
Fire crews were immediately deployed to the scene, with footage showing firefighters desperately trying to extinguish the flames with multiple hoses.
The terrifying incident happened just a day later a brutal magnitude of 7.6 earthquake large parts destroyed Japanwest coast, killing dozens of people and destroying tens of thousands of homes.
A Japan Airline (JAL) passenger plane bursts into flames on the tarmac of Haneda Airport
The plane crashed into a Coast Guard plane that was reportedly carrying relief supplies to help people affected by the New Year's Day earthquake.
Haneda Airport has grounded all flights to properly absorb the shock crash
A large plane carrying 367 passengers exploded at an airport near Tokyo today after colliding with a coast guard plane as it landed, Japanese media reported.
A Japanese Airlines plane caught fire at Tokyo's Haneda Airport after colliding with a coast guard plane
The evacuation ramp is on fire
A brutal fire quickly spread throughout the aircraft
Smoldering debris falls from the fuselage onto the asphalt
Images taken on board another plane show the inferno below
A Japan Airlines plane catches fire on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)
A coast guard official at Haneda Airport, one of the world's busiest, said they were “checking details.”
'It is not clear whether a collision took place. But it is certain that our plane is involved,” he told AFP. Another spokesperson told Japanese media that their MA-722 aircraft may have collided with the JAL flight on the runway.
NHK reported that one member of the coast guard plane's crew escaped, but the remaining five are missing.
Television footage showed flames coming out of the windows and the plane's nose hitting the ground as rescuers sprayed it with several water hoses. There was also burning debris on the runway.
More than 70 fire engines were deployed to the scene to extinguish the raging inferno, NHK reported.
Haneda is one of Japan's busiest airports and many people travel during the New Year holidays.
Japan has not experienced a serious commercial aviation accident in decades.
The worst ever was in 1985, when a JAL jumbo jet flying from Tokyo to Osaka crashed in the central Gunma region, killing 520 passengers and crew.
That disaster was one of the deadliest plane crashes in the world involving a single flight.
The fire brigade quickly arrived on site to extinguish the flames
The fire lit up the night sky at Haneda Airport
Both the passenger plane and the coast guard plane flew out of the sky during the collision
A photo taken inside the airport terminal shows the fire outside on the runway
In this photo the runway is ablaze
These images show a huge inferno engulfing the plane
Travelers watch in shock and despair as the plane burns on the runway