Tokyo plane crash: Australians relive the terrifying moment their Japan Airlines plane erupted into a fiery inferno after crashing into coast guard planes

A family on their way home from a ski trip have relived the horror of being caught in the terrifying Japan Airlines fireball crash in Tokyo that killed five people.

Hailee O'Sullivan, 17, was traveling with her brother, mother and father on JAL Flight 516 when it struck a Coast Guard plane on the Haneda Airport runway Tuesday.

Her brother Jakob said his family only realized the full extent of the damage when they evacuated the plane and saw the engines were on fire.

The siblings said they weren't even aware of what had happened until they escaped the cabin and could see both engines were engulfed in flames.

Both Hailee and Jakob thought the plane was going to explode at any moment, but all of the plane's passengers and crew miraculously escaped unscathed.

“We thought it was going to blow up – luckily it didn't (but) I was waiting for it to blow up in a way,” Hailee told 9News.

Flight staff on board instructed passengers in Japanese to put on their face masks and despite not speaking the language, the O'Sullivan's quickly followed the instructions.

The family had barely escaped the plane when they looked back to see it completely engulfed in flames by the time they reached the terminal.

A video recorded by the siblings and filmed during the excavation showed the hut quickly filling with smoke as those inside panicked.

Towards the end of their filming, the pair turn back to the plane and capture a shot of a fireball erupting from the wreckage.

“The whole inside is on fire, we would be dead now,” you hear someone say.

Despite the devastation clearly visible from the terminal, Jakob insisted they were completely unaware of what had happened until they Googled it.

Japan's Ministry of Transport and police have since launched separate investigations into the circumstances leading to the collision

The family nervously stepped in repatriation flight to Brisbane on Wednesday and landed safely back in Queensland later that day.

Although the scenes they saw online of the accident were chaotic, Jakob said he was relieved the family escaped before the fireball erupted.

Japan's Ministry of Transport and local police have since launched separate investigations into the incident to find out what went wrong.

The Ministry of Transport announced this on Wednesday a transcription of just's air traffic control communications before the crash showing that there was no takeoff clearance for the Coast Guard aircraft.

Instead, Tokyo air control had given up the JAL Airbus A350 cleared to land first on runway C.

At the same time, those aboard the cOastguard aircraft confirmed to air traffic control that this was the case taxied to the same runway before being instructed to continue to the stop line in front of the runway.

The police are focusing their investigation on possible professional negligence that could be responsible for the crash.

Officials look at the burned wreckage of a Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger plane on the tarmac of Tokyo International Airport in Haneda in Tokyo