Fiery crash between two planes at Tokyo airport probed by Japanese officials
Transport officials and police in Japan have begun investigations into a fiery crash between two planes at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.
TOKYO — A day after a large passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft crashed on the runway and burst into flames, transport officials and police began separate investigations into the fatal collision at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.
The question for investigators. Why was the smaller coast guard aircraft — a Bombardier Dash-8 — on the same runway as the Japan Airlines Airbus A350 came in to land Tuesday?
“We have recovered the voice recorders and flight recorders for coast guard plane,” Takuya Fujiwara, a senior investigator with the Japan Transport Safety Board, told a news conference, adding that they were still looking for the black box from the other plane.
Police began a separate inquiry into possible professional negligence, the Kyodo News agency reported.
A spokesperson said that a team of officers were conducting interviews and investigating Runway 3-4 Right where the planes collided, according to Reuters. But they declined to comment on whether they were looking into possible professional negligence, Reuters reported.
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