At Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, emergency services raced against period to save every passenger and team member from a helicopter that eventually caught fire.
Chinese authorities are looking into the circumstances surrounding the collision of the customer plane from Japan Airlines and a Coastguard plane as it touched down. A New Year’s Day earthquake-affected areas of Japan were to receive support from the Coastguard plane.
Serious CCTV footage captured after the collision shows the Airbus A350 fire as it sped down the runway.
As the plane’s gas began to leak, emergency services had to deal with extremely difficult circumstances, according to Professor Graham Braithwaite, Director of Transport Systems and Professor of Accident Investigations at Cranfield University.