Tragedy: Japan Airlines Plane Bursts Into Flames Carrying Over 300 Following Collision With Aircraft Upon Landing, Atleast 5 Killed!

TOKYO, Jan 2 (Reuters) - All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller craft on Tuesday. Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the JAL (9201.T) Airbus (AIR.PA) A350 airliner burst into flames as it skidded down the tarmac shortly before 6 p.m. (0900 GMT). "I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed," a passenger told Kyodo news agency. "I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin filled with gas and smoke." All 367 passengers and 12 crew were evacuated from the blaze which destroyed the airliner. At least 17 people on it were injured, NHK reported, citing the Tokyo Fire Department. Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito confirmed that five of the Coast Guard aircraft's crew had died while the captain of the plane had been injured. A ministry official told a press briefing the JAL plane was attempting to land normally when it collided with the Coast Guard's Bombardier-built Dash-8 maritime patrol plane on the runway. || Posted by CZ