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It was a close call for the passengers and crew members on a plane that caught fire as it collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport when the 367 passengers and 12 crew members on the Japan Airlines managed to escape the plane’s chaos before it ignited within minutes.
Video surfaced shows people exiting the plane as smoke and fire burst out from the plane.
According to Japanese Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito, the incident occurred when the plane hit a smaller coast guard plane while landing, and the airliner spewed smoke from its side as it continued down the runway. The pilot of the coast guard's Bombardier Dash-8 plane escaped, but five crew members died, Saito said