Crew took 18 hours to get everyone off the airplane and carefully accounted for after the incident.
Yet as passengers panicked, telephone systems malfunctioned, and some removal chutes were out of use due to the fire, Japan’s second-largest airline has described how the team in the smoke-filled cabin followed emergency procedures in textbook fashion.
According to a JAL spokesperson, the majority of the passengers on the trip from Hokkaido were Chinese, with at least 43 confirmed foreigners, including Australians, Swedes, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and North Korean nationals.
On Thursday, images from the public broadcaster Newspaper showed some officers surveying the wreckage, some of whom were wearing masks, gloves, and hard caps. On Wednesday, a Coast Guard national announced that they had retrieved the voice recorder from the aircraft.
Since the fall on Tuesday, thousands of flights into and out of Haneda have been canceled or delayed, leaving many disgruntled travelers there.
Teacher Michio Kusunoki, 67 years old, claimed that she had to deal with two delayed flights as she attempted to travel from Haneda to her house of Fukouka in the south of Japan.
She said,” I was supposed to board a plane yesterday evening at 7.30 p.m. ( Singapore time ), but I changed to this morning at 8.30 am, and that flight was also canceled.
” After that, I was unable to obtain whatever until 4.30 p.m., so I must wander around in order to return home.”
At the airport where the flight originated, New Chitose in Hokkaido, roughly 200 people were also left stranded immediately.