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.
VIDEO AT LINK............
“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.
AVIATION PING!.....................
Title is incorrect. The collision occurred on the ground.
” Haneda airport was closed immediately following the crash but is expected to reopen as soon as possible”
...I know it’s safer to fly than drive but I’d be very hesitant to catch a flight there anytime soon.
That pic has GOT to be after they got out. It’s completely engulfed in flames.
The cabin crew must have had their act together. So did the Japanese passengers.
They’re Japanese. They love order.
In America?
Some flights would have a similar outcome. Others? I’d hate to be on a flight to Las Vegas or Orlando ...
Yes....aviation experts were giving a lot of credit to the behavior of the passengers. Panic could have led to a different result.
Yes, it was on fire in the tail section when the came to a stop.............
Reminds me of USAir Flight 1493/LAX
They probably all paid attention to where the emergency exits were and the procedures, and followed instructions.
It’s the passengers’ behavior that saved them. Look how they acted during the earthquake yesterday or the day before.
379 passengers on a Dash 8?
That is quite a feat!
That was the Coast Guard aircraft..................
A senior ‘check-airman’ flight instructor for a major airline tells me Air Traffic controllers are understaffed and overworked, making mistakes. Says private jet jockeys are bad news, unsafe practices, using cellphones during flight, inexperienced etc. He caught a flight home in a jumpseat behind the co-pilot of a small jet recently, who was playing games on his cellphone the entire flight. He said he wanted to tap the guy on the shoulder and say, “So, if you lose an engine right now, which airport would be your best bet?”
I assume it was the standard version and not the stretch version..........
The video shows the main gear on ground, nose gear still up at point of collision.
Nose gear may be gone.....................
In the US the aisle would be clogged with volumetrically enhanced persons.
🔴 The EZ decoder ring sez (in part)
379:
"סימן הניצחון"
Japan airliner inferno: Miracle as all 379 on board are evacuated...
JAL flight 516:
Hatikvah ["הַתִּקְוָה"]
Perhaps something will change, but as of now these are simply the two numbers being announced together front and center on the news reports.
379 + 516 = 895 =
"The word of the Lord came unto Moses, saying"
"וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר"
occurring 70x, as 70 verses. 🔴
Wiki:
Japan [日本]
The characters 日本 mean "sun origin",[12] which is the source of the popular Western epithet "Land of the Rising Sun".[14]
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日 - used for "Day"
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