Japan investigates airport crash after 'miracle' escape

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 04, 2024 12:32 am

TOKYO: Japanese investigators on Wednesday probed the near-catastrophic collision of a coast guard plane and a passenger jet at Tokyo's Haneda Airport that killed five people, with almost 400 others narrowly escaping a raging inferno.

All but one of the six people on the smaller aircraft were killed, but all 379 Japan Airlines passengers and crew escaped on emergency slides minutes before the Airbus was engulfed in flames on Tuesday night.

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