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Re: Japan Earthquake Relief: Supply Planes Collide at Tokyo Airport -5 Coastguards De
Japan Earthquake Relief: Five Coastguards Dead and Passengers Evacuated After Planes Collide at Tokyo Airport
Six Coastguards Were on Plane, Which Was Delivering Earthquake Relief Supplies, Which Hit Japan Airlines Plane at Haneda Airport
MailOnline 2 JAN 2024
A total of five people who were on a coast guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport have died as a result of a collision with a passenger plane, police confirmed, according to public broadcaster NHK.
Six people were on the coast guard aircraft, a Bombardier Dash-8, which was part of earthquake relief efforts.
Ed Galea, a professor and director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group at the University of Greenwich, has praised the crew of the Japan Airlines plane which was on fire at Haneda airport after colliding with a coast guard plane.Galea wrote on social media:
You can see one of the JAL crew at the 4L exit urging passengers to come back to the exit. The crew member has a torch which they are using to attract passengers to the exit as the aircraft is filling with toxic smoke.
During the evacuation, the aircraft is nose down as the nose gear has collapsed. This makes the evacuation and the performance of the crew even more incredible. To use the 4L exits, passengers have to essentially climb up hill. That crew member at 4L is doing an astounding job.
Of the few passengers we can see on the ground and safely evacuated in the video, none have luggage, which is good behaviour by passengers, and presumably by crew who would have urged passengers to leave luggage behind. Hats off to the JAL crew, you guys are amazing, all souls on board are safe.
All passengers from the Japan Airlines flight were safely evacuated.
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