The pilots asserted that they had no “visual contact” with the other plane, although one of them did notice “an object” just before the impact
Japan Airlines JL516
This incident marked the first-ever hull loss globally for the A350 model, as reported by the Aviation Safety Network.
Fortunately, all 379 passengers and crew on the commercial JAL flight were successfully evacuated just moments before the jet succumbed to flames—a turn of events that many have hailed as a ‘miracle.’
A collision on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (HND) between a Coast Guard aircraft and a Japan Airlines (JL) Airbus A350 resulted in the death of five individuals aboard the Coast Guard plane