On January 2nd an airplane at Tokyo’s Haneda airport was crashed into by a Tokyo Airlines plane which resulted in many injured passengers and 5 dead. Anton Deibe a passenger of the plane that rolled into the coast guard plane said, “I look to the left, and I see flames all over the windows, and the plane starts to shake, and all the lights turn dark and everyone starts screaming in Japanese and I can’t understand anything,” (Blackman et al.)The plane then landed still on fire and rolled into the coast guard plane causing it to rapidly light up. “After landing, there was this loud bang,” the woman, who was not identified by name, said in an interview translated by NBC News. “After landing, there was this loud bang,” the woman, who was not identified by name, said in an interview translated by NBC News. “At first I thought it was a bird strike or something, and then I thought that something big had happened because of the fire.” said Debie. (Blackman et al.)
The passengers on the Haneda plane were quickly and efficiently moved off the plane by the crew. “Seconds later, the 17-year-old Swedish tourist — along with 366 other passengers and a dozen crew members — were clambering off the plane through choking black smoke and running for their lives as flames consumed the airliner they had just been on.'” An unidentified man interviewed by NHK said “the cabin was full of smoke.”
“The fire was getting stronger and stronger, and the smoke was getting bigger and bigger, and I thought, ‘This is really bad’,” he said.(Blackman et al.) The coast guard plane with less notice of the fire was quickly engulfed in the flames. The coast guard plane which had already been affected by the earthquakes, had 5 deaths. The captain reported that the back of the aircraft unsystematically caught fire shortly after he had increased the engine power before exploding following the collision. He survived with serious injuries, while the five crew members on the other plane were acknowledged as dead by the Tokyo Fire Department. The fire wasn’t put out for an estimated time of seven hours.
(All interviews are from Inside the chaos on the Japan Airlines flight after the Tokyo crash that left 5 dead (msn.com))