Roughly 400 people on board a Japan Airlines plane that is now on fire at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport have evacuated, Reuters reports citing NHK.
The coast guard plane that appears to have collided with a Japan Airlines passenger plane today was part of Japan’s earthquake relief efforts, carrying supplies to Niigata airport.
Here’s what we know at this point on the incident at Tokyo’s Haneda airport:
- A Japan Airlines passenger plane carrying 379 people appears to have collided with a coast guard aircraft with 6 people on board.
- All 379 people on the Japan Airlines plane have evacuated.
- 5 out of the 6 coast guard members are unaccounted for.
- Footage shows the passenger plane on fire on a runway at Haneda airport.
