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2024-01-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

JAL flight 516 Airbus A-350 Tokyo Haneda Airport Miracle

[MAIL] A large airliner carrying 379 passengers exploded today at an airport near Tokyo after colliding with a coastguard plane as it came into land, Japanese media reported.

Shocking footage showed the Japan Airlines jet engulfed in a raging inferno as it sat on the runway at Haneda Airport, in Ota City, Tokyo, with gouts of flame seen pouring out of the passenger windows.

One horrific clip showed the flames licking from the airliner's main cabin door as smouldering debris fell from the fuselage onto the tarmac, while another showed passengers sprinting along the runway to escape the blaze.

A Japan Airlines spokesperson told Japanese broadcaster NHK that all 379 passengers aboard the aircraft - JAL flight 516 Airbus A-350 - at the time of the explosion were successfully evacuated from the stricken plane.

There has been no official confirmation of casualties or injured, but a successful evacuation of all passengers and crew would be a truly miraculous feat given the blaze completely gutted the plane and melted through huge chunks of its bodywork.

Images from the scene showed how the passenger escape slide protruding from one of the airliner's doors was set ablaze as more flames burned within the cabin.

A coastguard official confirmed a coastguard plane was involved in the incident, with NHK reporting one crewmember had escaped that plane but five others remained unaccounted for.

The Japanese Airlines flight had flown out of Shin Chitose airport in Japan and was landing at Haneda airport when the disaster occurred.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-02 05:29|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Haneda International Airport, (like many Int airports), during certain peak periods of the day, is an accident waiting to happen every second.

Food For Thought: Remember, many of these Airports were built 40++ years ago. When Air Travel was 50%, or less than what it is now and have little room for expansion.

We see it here in the USA, where some super busy, or lame A$$ Stoned Air Traffic controller misses a flight intrusion conflict.
Here in the USA alone, the FAA is seeing 45+K flights a day and up to 5,400+ in the air at any time.

So the FAA data from just Dec. 15th 2023 to Dec. 29th, 2023 is worrisome. FAA Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS)

Posted by NN2N1 2024-01-02 07:26|| 2024-01-02 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Pete's on it.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-02 08:11|| 2024-01-02 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Hes down on it even

Posted by BrerRabbit 2024-01-02 09:22|| 2024-01-02 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 ButtGag: "I heard planes were nuts-to-butts and I just had to be here!"

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-02 09:39|| 2024-01-02 09:39|| Front Page Top

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