Japan airport crash: Five Coast Guard men die, 379 JAL516 passengers and crew escape

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All 379 passengers and crew of a Japan Airlines plane miraculously escaped from a fire following a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Tuesday (Jan 2) evening. But five of the six Coast Guard crew perished.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 [aircraft noise]

00:05 All 379 passengers and crew on board a Japan Airlines aircraft

00:09 miraculously escaped following a collision

00:12 with a Coast Guard aircraft in Tokyo on Tuesday.

00:15 The Flight 516 and Coast Guard aircraft

00:18 burst into flames on Runway C at the Haneda Airport

00:21 during the 5.47 p.m. incident.

00:24 The fire and rescue personnel reportedly arrived at the scene

00:27 in about three minutes to evacuate the passengers and crew.

00:31 Japanese Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Tetsuo Saito

00:36 said the pilot of the Coast Guard plane made it,

00:39 but the remaining five crew members perished.

00:42 [Japanese language]

01:02 The Coast Guard said its aircraft was headed to the Niigata Airport

01:06 to deliver aid to the victims of the 7.6 magnitude earthquake

01:10 that struck Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day.

01:14 The Japan Airlines flight traveled from Chitose, Hokkaido

01:18 to the Haneda Airport.

01:20 The incident caused many flights at the airport to be delayed and diverted.

01:25 [silence]

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