Posted on 01/02/2024 7:32:00 AM PST by Red Badger
All 379 passengers and crew members aboard a Japan Airlines plane, which collided midair with a Coast Guard aircraft Tuesday, survived despite a fiery landing at Tokyo’s Haneda airport.
Five of the six crew members on the Coast Guard plane were killed following the collision shortly before 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Only the captain of the Bombardier-built Dash-8 maritime patrol plane has reportedly been found. The crew was reportedly on their way to Niigata airport on Japan’s west coast to deliver aid and resources to survivors of a powerful New Year’s Day earthquake that struck the region, killing at least 48 people and triggering fires, tsunamis and landslides.
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“I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed,” one passenger aboard the flight told Kyodo news agency, Reuters reported. “I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin filled with gas and smoke.”
Some 17 people from the Japan Airlines flight were evacuated with injuries, but somehow over 300 people reportedly survived the freak incident. Haneda airport was closed immediately following the crash but is expected to reopen as soon as possible as it is one of two major airports serving Japan’s capital, according to Reuters.
have they called Tom Hanks yet?
They're not from around here.
Is Japan hiring ATC controllers based on other-race instead of merit too? This is no “freak incident” — someone is to blame.
According to some, the ATC are understaffed and overworked............
I know they say that about the USA, and it takes 3 years for the pipeline to check out a controller, and there’s a young mandatory retirement age, but in Japan too?
And in the USA, is there a shortage because motivated, highly qualified candidates are being rejected because of DEI, or because under-motivated, under-qualified candidates are selected because of DEI?
OH WAIT, that’s the same thing.
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