A Japan Airlines (JAL) airliner on fire on the tarmac at Tokyo International Airport in Haneda this Tuesday, January 2, 2024. (AFP / RICHARD A. BROOKS)
Nearly 379 passengers and crew members were evacuated from a Japan Airlines plane, five others died. The aircraft caught fire this Tuesday, January 2 on the tarmac of Tokyo-Haneda airport following a collision with a Japanese coast guard vehicle.
A team of experts from the French Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) for civil aviation is due to arrive in Japan on Wednesday January 3 to participate in the investigation into the ground collision of a Japan Airlines Airbus with a Japanese Coast Guard plane, we learned this Tuesday, January 2 from the organization.
An Airbus A350 of the Japanese company which had just landed at Tokyo-Haneda airport collided for a reason that remains to be determined with a Bombardier Dash 8 of the Japanese coast guard which was preparing to take off.
The 367 passengers and 12 crew members of the airliner were able to be evacuated before the plane caught fire. Five of the six occupants of the Coast Guard plane were killed.
The French BEA participates in the technical, so-called safety, investigation for aircraft abroad, particularly when it acts as the competent authority of the country where the aircraft was built.
The A350 is produced in Toulouse, in the southwest of France. Japan Airlines has 16 copies.