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Plane on fire Haneda Airport Tokyo

  • 02-01-2024 10:30am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭


    Very bad fire being broadcast live on Sky News at the moment. Very much hope all passengers and crew have gotten off safely.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,811 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Looks to be a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900.

    Reports suggesting it collided with another aircraft after landing. Left engine nacelle appears to have some impact damage.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,145 ✭✭✭bennyx_o


    Sky saying a collision with a smaller aircraft caused it. Chutes deployed so hopefully everyone got off OK



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    They're now reporting a possible collision with a smaller aircraft on the runway. :(



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    Coast Guard are looking at the possibility it collided with one of their planes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,815 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    id imagine everyone got off safely, as they wouldnt be broadcasting it otherwise, expensive fire though....



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    This is practically totally engulfed, end to end. Tail collapsed just now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,699 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    Collision with a smaller coast guard aircraft. Looks as if everyone got off safely thank god.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    367 on board. All got off, thankfully.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,145 ✭✭✭bennyx_o


    All 367 passengers off safely and no serious injuries thankfully



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    Surely there would be injuries if not fatalities on the coast guard plane. They keep saying nobody was killed or seriously hurt in the incident and quoting miracles etc.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    6 were on the Coast Guard plane. 5 remain unaccounted for.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,811 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Five coast guard members unaccounted for, sadly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    Saw the moment of collision on NHK. Hell of a fireball and significant fire over the plane as it rolled down the runway. Too dark and to far to really see the plane it collided with.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,251 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,251 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Astonishing that the crew managed to get everyone off that plane, well done JAL


    The guardian reporting

    "The coastguard 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."



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Amazing outcome for the passengers. 🙏




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    Surprisingly calm there.



  • Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭alentejo


    RIP to the casualties on this incident. While awful, it is testimony to modern civil aircraft and the safety systems to which they operate under that everyone on the Japan Airlines aircraft managed to evacuate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,322 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Yep, I'd say most of us have sat through the safety briefing well over a dozen times at this stage.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,815 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78




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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,770 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    The plane landing was still going a fair clip.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sexual Chocolate


    Amazing that everyone got off. Those A350 flights are domestic only so operate in a typical high config and apparently in this case only 3 doors were in operation for evacuation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    The Coast Guard plane was a Dash 8, so not that small either.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Noxegon


    Japan is a society founded on rules and respect. I'd put money down that few if any tried to bring their hand luggage with them.

    If this had happened anywhere else, the outcome may well have been very different.

    I develop Superior Solitaire when I'm not procrastinating on boards.ie.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    Was watching it on Sky News.


    Why on earth was there no fire brigade response to extinguish the fire. It burned for at least 20 mins with only one fire engine sporadically spraying it with foam, and not dampening the fire at all.


    Surely every fire unit in the airport should have been on scene within a few minutes and doused the fire immediately.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,815 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    caught up with earthquake search and rescue, maybe......



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    I doubt you leave an international airport with no fire cover, or one tender with a crew who dont know how to put out a fire.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭steve-o


    Perhaps they decided to focus their resources at the crash site a mile away trying to find and save the missing people?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,833 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    RIP to the 5 who died. But leaving that aside i'd say there were a few relieved heads in Toulouse when it came to light that there was another aircraft involved



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭The Macho Man


    Found this very good video on the tube of the ATC recording. 15 secs in they have zoomed in, you can just about make out the other aircraft. I have to say its a miracle no one on the Airbus was injured or killed but condolences to the coast guard members families.




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