The captain of a airplane that collided with a Japan Airways jet stated he was cleared for takeoff, however air-traffic-control transcripts inform a special story
We now have a greater sense of what might have induced the Japan Airways crash in Tokyo.
A Japanese coast-guard plane that the passenger jet hit whereas touchdown wasn’t cleared to take off.
Transcripts from simply earlier than the crash seem to contradict the coast-guard pilot’s declare.
A coast-guard plane that collided with a Japan Airways passenger jet this week wasn’t cleared for takeoff, in keeping with an air-traffic-control transcript detailing the moments earlier than the crash.
The coast-guard airplane was instructed to taxi to some extent close to the runway on Tuesday night at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, Bloomberg reported, citing the transcript.
However the captain of the airplane stated after the accident that he had “obtained permission to take off,” Japanese media stories stated.
Somebody on the coast-guard airplane acknowledged the directive to taxi, Bloomberg reported.
“Taxi to holding level C5 JA722A No. 1, Thanks,” Bloomberg quoted from the transcript. It is unclear whether or not the particular person talking was the captain or his copilot.
5 of the six crewmembers of the coast-guard airplane died; the captain was the one survivor and was badly injured after the crash, Reuters reported.
The Japan Airways passenger jet that collided with the coast-guard airplane had permission to land, the transcripts present.
All 379 passengers on board escaped earlier than the plane burst into flames after touchdown — though the intercom system was damaged and greater than half the emergency exits have been unusable.
Specialists stated the passengers and crew survived as a result of they listened to the flight crew and left their baggage behind.
Reuters reported that Japan’s Security Transport Board was working with British and French authorities companies to research the accident.
The Airbus was inbuilt France, and its Rolls-Royce engines have been constructed within the UK, Reuters reported.
“The transport ministry is submitting goal materials and can absolutely cooperate with the … investigation to make sure we work collectively to take all attainable security measures to forestall a recurrence,” Japan’s transport minister, Tetsuo Saito, instructed reporters after the crash.
Correction: January 3, 2024 — A earlier model of this story misspelled the title of the Tokyo airport. It is Haneda Airport, not Hanata Airport. It additionally incorrectly said the place the Japan Airways airplane’s elements have been manufactured. The airplane was inbuilt France, and its engines have been constructed within the UK.
