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A Japan Airlines plane was engulfed in flames after landing at Haneda Airport on Tuesday.
JAL516 flight Airbus A350 plane collided with the coast guard plane Bombardier DHC-8-315 at Tokyo Haneda airport. Incredibly 367 passengers and 12 crew all escaped safely but unknown about crew of the coast guard plane.
Live video from the airport, an international hub on the outskirts of Tokyo, showed firefighters battling flames that have engulfed the aircraft’s fuselage.
This accident,ending in a fire hazzard, that has resulted in a hull loss for a A350 aircraft model, with a futuristic carbon monolithic (CFRP) fuselage, will have many angles of investigation for the investigative agencies, and further reccomendation for the aviation industry.
The plane was an Airbus A350, according to flight tracker FlightAware.
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Source – ABC News , FL360Aero