Japan Airlines plane burns up at Tokyo airport after collision

Everyone on JAL flight escapes; 5 crew members on Coast Guard plane killed

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The Japan Airlines jumbo jet burns at Haneda Airport on Jan. 2. (Photo by Suzu Takahashi)

RYOHTAROH SATOH and AKIRA KITADO, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- A Japan Airlines plane collided with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft while landing at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday evening, forcing hundreds of passengers to escape before the jetliner was engulfed in flames.

Television footage showed the plane burning on the runway. The aircraft was an Airbus A350 operating as flight 516 from New Chitose Airport, which serves Sapporo on the country's northern island of Hokkaido.

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