TOKYO: According to transcripts of conversations with the control tower, a passenger jet that collided with an ocean guard turboprop on Wednesday ( Jan 3 ) was given permission to land, but the smaller plane was not authorized for takeoff.
Following Tuesday’s collision with a De Havilland Dash-8 coast guard turboprop shortly after landing at Haneda airport, the Japan Airlines ( JAL ) Airbus A350 miraculously managed to escape all 379 passengers.
The captain, who managed to escape the wreckage, was seriously hurt, but five of the six coast guard staff members who were scheduled to leave on a journey in response to an important disaster on the east coast perished.
Officials have just recently started their inquiries, and there is still a lot of mystery surrounding the incident, including how the two aircraft ended up on the same airport.
However, transcripts of traffic handle orders made public by authorities seemed to indicate that while the coast guard aircraft had been instructed to vehicle to a holding area close to the runway, the Japan Airlines plane had received permission to land.
There was no sign in those records that the coast guard aircraft had been given permission to take off, according to a representative from Japan’s civil aircraft commission.
While acknowledging that there was no sign in the records that he had been given permission to enter the airport, the commander of the beach protect aircraft claimed to have done so after receiving agreement.
According to Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito,” the transport department is submitting goal material and may totally cooperate with the… analysis to assure we work up to take all possible safety measures to prevent a recurrence.”