Verbal miscommunication likely behind fatal crash at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, says report
Japan Airlines' A350 airplane is on fire at Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Japan.
The miscommunication between a coast guard and air traffic control may have been the reason behind the fatal crash which took place at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on January 2, reported the Yomiuri newspaper, citing unidentified sources.
As per the newspaper, the coast guard plane was informed by the control tower that it was “number one", which may have been confused with the signal of it entering the runway and not as an order of departure. The details also emerge as the transport ministry investigates what caused the incident, and whether the incident could have been prevented.
The flight and voice recording devices, which were recovered from the crash site late last week, is likely to untangle contradictory pieces of evidence especially the claim of the coast guard captain that he was given permission for entering the runway even after an official transcript which may suggest otherwise.
Also read:Japan Airlines inferno: Coastguard plane did not have clearance for take-off, transcripts suggest
On Monday, the flight operations resumed at Haneda’s Runway C, where one week earlier a landing passenger jet crashed into a parked coast guard plane.
All 379 passengers and crew aboard Airbus SE A350-900 of Japan Airlines Co. were evacuated Tuesday evening (Jan 2), within minutes after the plane caught fir, although 14 were injured and two pets were not able survive. Five among the six crew members on the De Havilland Canada Dash 8 of Japan Coast Guard were killed.
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Japan's jet turns into a fireball
Japanese authorities on Wednesday (Jan 3) said that a passenger jet which collided with a Coast Guard turboprop while landing at a Tokyo airport was given permission to land, however, the smaller plane was not given the clearance for take-off, as per control tower transcripts.
All 379 people aboard the Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350 were safely evacuated as the plane erupted in flames after crashing with a De Havilland Dash-8 Coast Guard turboprop at Haneda airport.
Watch:Japan jet crash: More details emerge from Air Traffic Communications
However, five out of six Coast Guard crew, who were about to depart on a flight for relief work in response to a major earthquake on Japan's west coast, died and the captain was badly injured.
The Japan Safety Transport Board (JTSB) has started investigating the incident and it remains unclear how the crash happened and how the two aircraft were present on the same runaway.
(With inputs from agencies)