Tokyo’s Haneda airport reported that flight operations resumed on Monday ( Jan 8 ) six days after a nearly catastrophic collision between an airliner and another aircraft that claimed the lives of five people.
After the Jan 2 fall, all 379 passengers and crew managed to escape the burning Japan Airlines planes, but five of the six passengers on the coast guard airplane it collided with perished.
Since then, the tarmac at Haneda , one of four airports where the accident occurred, has been closed, forcing hundreds of mostly domestic flights to be canceled at this busiest airport in the world.
According to a Tokyo airport spokeswoman,” Runway C resumed operation today ( Monday ), so the airport is back to normal operation.
Chinese researchers, along with rivals from France, Britain, and Canada, are looking into the incident after staff removed the charred remnants of the two flights.
According to a record of communications made public by the travel government last year, the JAL plane was given permission to land and the coast guard plane had been told to stop in front of the runway.
The sole survivor, a coast guard aircraft, claims to have had permission to land on the airport, where his plane was seen for about 40 seconds prior to the crash, according to media reports.