The airline has confirmed that the nearly 400 passengers and crew on board have been safely evacuated.
Initial reports on the Coast Guard plane say that while the pilot apparently escaped the blaze, five other crew members were initially unaccounted for. They have now been found, but their condition is unclear.
Later video showed fire crews working to put out the fire on the Airbus A350. It wasn’t immediately clear what had happened or if there were injuries. NHK TV reported that the plane was JAL flight 516 that had flown out of Shin Chitose airport in Japan to Haneda.
Haneda is one of the busiest airports in Japan.
The Coast Guard plane was reportedly en route to an area on Japan’s west coast damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale. At least 48 people are thought to have been killed, with others still buried under collapsed buildings.
Source: https://www.euronews.com/2024/01/02/plane-catches-fire-on-runway-at-japans-haneda-airport
