- We now have a greater sense of what might have brought about the Japan Airways crash in Tokyo.
- A Japanese coast-guard plane that the passenger jet hit whereas touchdown wasn’t cleared to take off.
- Transcripts from simply earlier than the crash seem to contradict the coast-guard pilot’s declare.
A coast-guard plane that collided with a Japan Airways passenger jet this week wasn’t cleared for takeoff, in line with an air-traffic-control transcript detailing the moments earlier than the crash.
The coast-guard aircraft was instructed to taxi to a degree close to the runway on Tuesday night at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, Bloomberg reported, citing the transcript.
However the captain of the aircraft mentioned after the accident that he had “obtained permission to take off,” Japanese media reviews mentioned.
Somebody on the coast-guard aircraft acknowledged the directive to taxi, Bloomberg reported.
“Taxi to holding level C5 JA722A No. 1, Thanks,” Bloomberg quoted from the transcript. It is unclear whether or not the individual talking was the captain or his copilot.
5 of the six crewmembers of the coast-guard aircraft died; the captain was the one survivor and was badly injured after the crash, Reuters reported.
The Japan Airways passenger jet that collided with the coast-guard aircraft had permission to land, the transcripts present.
All 379 passengers on board escaped earlier than the plane burst into flames after touchdown — although the intercom system was damaged and greater than half the emergency exits had been unusable.
Consultants mentioned the passengers and crew survived as a result of they listened to the flight crew and left their baggage behind.
Reuters reported that Japan’s Security Transport Board was working with British and French authorities companies to research the accident.
The Airbus was assembled in France, and Reuters reported its Rolls-Royce engines had been constructed within the UK.
“The transport ministry is submitting goal materials and can totally cooperate with the … investigation to make sure we work collectively to take all attainable security measures to stop a recurrence,” Japan’s transport minister, Tetsuo Saito, advised reporters after the crash.
Correction: January 3, 2024 — A earlier model of this story misspelled the title of the Tokyo airport. It is Haneda Airport, not Hanata Airport. It additionally incorrectly said the place among the Japan Airways aircraft’s elements had been manufactured. The aircraft was assembled in France, however its engines had been from the UK.
