Videos show the moment the plane crashed at Tokyo airport began

A Japan Airlines plane caught fire on Tuesday on a runway at Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Image: Disclosure)Japan), according to images broadcast by Japanese public television NHK, which, like other local media, reported a collision with another aircraft. All 367 passengers and 12 crew members on the Japan Airlines flight were evacuated from the plane, according to NHK. Among the passengers were eight children, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported.

Although, Five of the six people on board the other aircraft involved in the crash, a Japanese coast guard plane, are missing, necessary NHK. The sixth occupant managed to get out of the device.

LOOK: A Japan Airlines plane with hundreds of passengers catches fire at Tokyo airport | VIDEO

In images taken at 5:47 pm local time (08:47 GMT), the plane could be seen Japan Airlines taxiing down the runway before a large explosion left a trail of flames behind the aircraft, which stopped a little further ahead.

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Video of Japan Airlines plane on fire after colliding with a Coast Guard plane at Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan. https://t.co/RUilOgt1Ob pic.twitter.com/5Yef3hdXWM

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According to several local media, this was JAL 5016 passenger plane, an Airbus A50-900 coming from Shin-Chitose Airport, near Sapporo, in the north of Japanwhat collided with a Japanese coast guard plane.

???????? | The video shows passengers escaping from a burning Japan Airlines plane on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport after it landed and caught fire.
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“It is not clear whether there was a collision or not. But what is certain is that our plane was involved,” a coast guard official at Tokyo Haneda airport told AFP.

For your part, Japan Airlines stated that its aircraft collided with each other shortly after landing, according to Kyodo news agency, which added that the Japanese Ministry of Transport was investigating the accident.

The track was covered in debris and more than 70 fire trucks rushed to the scene, according to Japanese public television.

Tokyo Haneda is one of the two international airports in the Japanese capital and one of the busiest in the world.

Accidents involving passenger aircraft are extremely rare in Japan.

The most serious occurred in 1985, when a Japan Airlines plane crashed between Tokyo and Osaka, killing 520 people, in one of the worst air disasters in the world.

Japan It was also shaken on Tuesday by the violent earthquake that hit the Noto peninsula, in the center of the country, the day before, and which caused at least 48 deaths, according to a new provisional report from local authorities.

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