Japan Airlines crash news LIVE: Five coast guard aircraft crew confirmed dead after passenger jet collision that sparked inferno at Tokyo airport

Two passengers spoke about their horrifying ordeal onboard the burning JAL plane.

‘Smoke began to fill the plane, and I thought, “this could be really bad”,’ an adult male passenger told reporters at the airport.

‘An announcement said doors in the back and middle could not be opened. So everyone disembarked from the front,’ he said.

A female passenger said it had been dark on board as the fire intensified after landing.

‘It was getting hot inside the plane, and I thought, to be honest, I would not survive,’ she said in comments shown on broadcaster NHK.

Our new map shows in detail what led to the plane inferno in Tokyo today that saw an airliner collide with a coast guard aircraft.

While the 379 passengers onboard the Japanese Airlines flight were rescued, five of the six coast guard crew members died.

Rahm Emanuel, the US Ambassador to Japan, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: ‘As we await more information, we commend the professionalism of the flight attendants, crew, and emergency responders who successfully evacuated and saved the lives of all 367 passengers on the JAL flight.’

This is the shocking moment passengers on the Japan Airlines flight escape the plane via inflatable slides.

They can be seen running past the burning engine shortly before it explodes.

Coastguard flight MA-722 aircraft, a Bombardier Dash-8 (like the one pictured below), collided with Japan Airlines flight 516 – a much larger Airbus A-350 – on runway C at Haneda.

Five people aboard a coastguard aircraft were killed when their plane collided with a Japan Airlines passenger jet coming in to land at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport, with only one crewmember managing to escape with severe injuries, Japanese police reported.

The coast guard has now confirmed that its flight MA-722 aircraft smashed into Japan Airlines flight 516 on runway C at Haneda, with both planes immediately erupting into flames.

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Prof Graham Braithwaite, director of transport systems at British Cranfield University, has praised the cabin crew and pilots onboard the Japan Airlines Flight 516.

‘The evacuation has been successful and it is a reminder how much has gone into training cabin crew,’ Prof Braithwaite told the BBC as he praised the airline and crew.

‘Their focus is on safety. They are the last people to evacuate the airplane and on face value, it looks like they have done an incredible job.’

This is the moment a large airliner carrying 379 passengers touched down as smoke filled the cabin at an airport near Tokyo, after it crashed into a coastguard plane as it came into land.

The Japan Airlines jet was engulfed in a raging inferno as it sat on the runway at Haneda Airport, in Ota City, Tokyo, today, with gouts of flame seen pouring out of the passenger windows.

New footage taken from inside the plane shows passengers panicking as smoke fills the cabin. Several can be seen with masks and rags over their mouth in an effort to limit the amount of smoke they inhale, while others can be heard crying out in fear.

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Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has reacted to the Tokyo airport fire on social media.

His office wrote on X that Kishida would ensure that officials ‘quickly ascertain the damage situation’.

The Prime Minister would also ‘strive to provide appropriate information to the public’.

Above all, Kishida instructed to ‘make every effort to rescue victims of the disaster’.

Here is our map showing the flight path of the Japan Airlines jet that caught fire at Haneda Airport after colliding with a coast guard plane.

Flight 516 departed from New Chitose airport near the city of Sapporo at 4pm local time (7am UK time).

It touched down in Tokyo after the 517-mile journey from Sapporo at 5.47pm local time (8.47 UK time), according to Flightradar.

Miraculously, the airline said all 379 passengers onboard were successfully evacuated from the aircraft.

Five of the six crew members onboard the coast guard plane are now confirmed dead, Japanese broadcaster NHK reports.

Swede Anton Deibe, 17, who was a passenger on the Japan Airlines plane, told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that ‘the entire cabin was filled with smoke within a few minutes.

‘We threw ourselves down on the floor. Then the emergency doors were opened and we threw ourselves at them.

‘The smoke in the cabin stung like hell. It was a hell.’

Deibe, who was travelling with his parents and sister, added: ‘We have no idea where we are going so we just run out into the field. It was chaos.’

A passenger onboard the Japan Airlines jet that collided with a coast guard plane recorded terrifying footage.

A video shows the moment the burning plane touched down on the tarmac as orange smoke surrounds the aircraft.

In another clip passengers can be seen looking around the plane in panic as the cabin fills with smoke.

Dramatic pictures are continuing to emerge showing the scale of the jet plane inferno at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan.

Images (see below) show black smoke billowing out from the aircraft as firefighters try to put out the blaze.

All 379 passengers and crews of JAL airplane have been evacuated from the airplane while 5 members of JCG are unaccounted for.

The Japanese Coast Guard has confirmed that the collision involved one of its planes that was headed to Niigata airport on Japan’s west coast to deliver aid to those caught up in the powerful earthquake.

A spokesperson at Japan Airlines, the other plane involved, said its aircraft had departed from Shin-Chitose airport on the northern island of Hokkaido.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed relevant agencies to coordinate to assess the damage swiftly and provide information to the public, according to his office.

Haneda has closed all runways following the incident, a spokesperson for the airport said.

A large airliner carrying 379 passengers exploded today at an airport near Tokyo after colliding with a coastguard plane as it came into land, Japanese media reported.

A Japan Airlines spokesperson reportedly told NHK that all 379 passengers aboard the aircraft at the time of the explosion were successfully evacuated from the stricken plane.

There has been no official confirmation of casualties or injured, but a successful evacuation of all passengers and crew would be a truly miraculous feat given the blaze completely gutted the plane and melted through huge chunks of its bodywork.

Fire crews were deployed to the scene immediately, with footage from Japanese broadcaster NHK showing how firefighters were desperately trying to extinguish the flames with multiple hoses.

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This is the terrifying moment a Japanese Airline jet is engulfed in a raging inferno as it sits on the runway at Haneda Airport, in Ota City, Tokyo.

Flames can be seen pouring out of the passenger windows.

One horrific clip showed the flames licking from the airliner’s windows and doors as smouldering debris fell from the fuselage onto the tarmac, while another showed passengers sprinting along the runway to escape the blaze.

If you are just joining us now, here is a recap of what we know so far:

• Japan airlines jet collided with a coastguard plane as it came into land
• Shocking footage showed airliner engulfed in raging inferno on runway at Haneda Airport, in Ota City, Tokyo
• Miraculously all 379 passengers on the airliner were successfully evacuated
• Five crew members on the coastguard plane are reportedly unaccounted for
• There has been no official confirmation of casualties or injured

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We will bring you the latest developments in Japan after a large airliner carrying 379 passengers exploded today at an airport near Tokyo after colliding with a coastguard plane as it came into land.