A New Year miracle: Airbus jet with nearly 400 souls on board crashes at Tokyo airport

A Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350-9 crashed today (2 January 2024) at Haneda Airport, Tokyo after colliding with another aircraft waiting to take off.

The smaller aircraft a De Havilland (Dash 8-400) was on its way to help with the rescue effort after a huge earthquake hit Noto-Peninsula on New Years Day.

Once the JAL Airbus A350 with nearly 400 passengers and crew on board had touched down its been reported that this is where both aircraft collided and the A350-9 exploded into flames, the flight crew managed to stop the aircraft and everyone left the aircraft by the escape slides to safety,

Reports suggest five people had died and all were on board the De Havilland – Dash 8-400 aircraft which was shown on a local news network still moving down the runway on fire, we believe only the captain escaped but is in a serious condition.

Despite the seriousness of this incident many people are claiming it was nothing short of a miracle how almost everyone survived, the Airbus A350-9 held up long enough so people had enough time to escape, once everyone was off the flight the entire aircraft was soon a fire ball.

It is now for the investigators to decide what happened, the black box recorders will also be found and will help with he investigation, from what we know it seems like ATC (Air Traffic Control) may have had some part to play in this collision.

It has also been mentioned that a super sophisticated Airbus A350-9 along with the eyes of the pilot and first officer will have surely seen the obstruction and as would be expected the JAL aircraft should have aborted the landing to do a go around even if ATC was asleep!

All major airliners have on board a thing called ACAS (Avoidance Collision Avoidance System) this is activated at all phases of flight including the JAL Airbus A350-900, although its not a direct message to ATC it warns the pilot of an obstruction and for him or her to make the decision to avoid as soon as possible was this ignored?

This incident throws up more questions for example if the JAL A350-900 aircraft collided with the De Havilland coming into land with a landing weight of around 207 tonnes coming in at a fast speed surely the Havilland and the A350-900 would have exploded instantly?

In a video we saw the De Havilland aircraft still going down the runway on fire.

It has also been reported the De Havilland turboprop aircraft did not have the ADS-B transponder which would have given approximate location information to Air Traffic Control, this will be something the investigators will check if the report is true, still the same their was no reason why the flight crew of the JAL aircraft had to land with the obstruction in the way.

It was a clear evening when the crash happened which was almost 6pm local time, they will have seen the obstruction well before landing, without a doubt this will have been reported to ATC, warnings will have been given by the aircraft, so what really happened?

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