TOKYO -- Instructions issued by air traffic control were heard by the co-pilot of a Japan Coast Guard plane as well as its captain ahead of a deadly collision with a passenger jet at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, sources at the coast guard told Nikkei on Saturday. That raises the possibility that both officers misinterpreted the directions before entering the runway where the Japan Airlines plane was to land.
The Japan Transport Safety Board, part of the nation's transport ministry, has started interviewing air traffic controllers and has also retrieved the voice recorder from the JAL airliner.
