According to Reuters, 367 people were on board the plane when it caught fire. Images from public service broadcaster NHK show the plane in flames from the underside of the plane and from several windows, and firefighters fighting the blaze. The plane is said to have caught fire on landing and the TV channel NHK reports that the Japanese coast guard states that the plane may have collided with a coast guard plane. All passengers and crew have now been evacuated from the burning plane, writes The Japan Times. The same scenario as in Tenerife 1977 Hans Kjäll, aviation safety analyst, draws parallels between this incident and the plane crash in Tenerife, 1977, when two Boeing 747s collided at Los Rodeos airport, and around 700 people died. – There the consequences were even greater, but it is the same scenario, he tells TV4 Nyheterna. According to him, it looks like the two planes collided, in connection with the landing of the passenger-filled aircraft, which led to the start of the fire. – That is my impression so far, he says. May be due to a misunderstanding According to Hans Kjäll, this type of serious collision on the track is unusual and he believes it may be due to a miscommunication. – You have an air traffic control that is supposed to separate the planes on the ground. And those that roll on the ground and those that fly in the air may have different controllers. So the fault behind this could be the coordination or misunderstanding, which has caused a collision, he says. The text is updated.
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