Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
NEW YORK, 4th Jan. According to local news media in Japan on Wednesday stated that Airbus has dispatched a team of specialists to assist relevant authorities in investigating an aircraft collision that involved one of its A-350 aircraft delivered to Japan Airlines.
Airbus said on Tuesday that it would provide technical assistance to the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety of France and to the Japan Transport Safety Board in charge of the investigation, in a press release issued on Tuesday.
NHK Japan public broadcaster reported that 5 of the 6 crew members aboard a Japan Coast Guard aircraft that collided with a passenger plane at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday were confirmed dead.
The captain who managed to escape earlier was severely injured, NHK reported.
Coast Guard spokesperson Yoshinori Yanagishima confirmed the collision between the Japan Airlines aircraft and its flight MA-722, a Bombardier Dash-8, with both aircraft catching fire.
According to the spokesperson, the Coast Guard plane was taxing on the runway to transport relief goods for quake-hit areas in Niigata Prefecture after 7.6 earthquake hit central Japan on Monday afternoon.
NHK reported that all 367 passengers and 12 crew members on board the Japan Airlines flight escaped from the airplane while it was on fire without life-threatening injuries after it collided with the Coast Guard aircraft.
