Five dead after horrific runway crash at Tokyo airport leaves jet in flames
by Gavin Blair in Tokyo and Daniel Boffey in London from World news | The Guardian on (#6HHE6)
Hundreds evacuated from burning passenger jet after collision with coastguard plane at Haneda airport
Five crew members on a coastguard plane were killed and 379 people forced to evacuate a burning Japan Airlines jet after a horrific collision on a runway at Haneda airport in Tokyo.
JAL flight 516, an Airbus A350, was engulfed in flames soon after landing as it struck the smaller coastguard aircraft waiting to deliver aid to the earthquake-hit Noto peninsula.
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