Flights have resumed on a fixed runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport a week after a crash inbetween a Japan Airlines airplane and a coast guard airplane
ByMARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
January 7, 2024, 11: 17 PM
A Japan Airlines airplane takes off from the runway where a aircraft crash took location, at Haneda airport in Tokyo Monday, Jan. 8,2024 Tokyo’s Haneda airport is practically back to its typical operation Monday as it resumed the runway a week after a deadly crash inbetween a Japan Airlines airliner and a coast guard airplane seen to haveactually been triggered by human mistake. (Kyodo News bymeansof AP)
The Associated Press
TOKYO — Flights resumed Monday on a fixed runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport a week after a crash inbetween a Japan Airlines airplane and a coast guard airplane thought to haveactually been triggered by human mistake.
The seaside runway is one of 4 at Haneda and its resuming suggests the airport is near returning to regular operations.
The accident happened Tuesday night when JAL Flight 516 bring 379 travelers and team landed right behind the coast guard airplane preparing to take off on the exactsame seaside runway, engulfing both airplane in flames. All residents of the JAL’s Airbus A350-900 airliner securely left in 18 minutes. The captain of the coast guard’s much smallersized Bombardier Dash-8 left with burns however his 5 team members passedaway.
At the coast guard’s Haneda base, coworkers of the 5 flight team lined up and saluted to mourn for their deaths as black cars bring their bodies drove past them. The victims’ bodies were to