A report detailing distracted pilots, airport congestion and shortcomings in safety protocols shines new light into the lead up to last year’s fiery plane crash at Japan’s Haneda Airport.
The 166-page document charts the hours and final chaotic minutes before the fatal collision between a Japan Airlines Co. jet and a coast guard plane at the Tokyo airport in the early evening of Jan. 2, 2024.
The crash killed five of the six people aboard the smaller plane, which had entered the runway into the path of the arriving JAL flight. All 379 passengers and crew aboard the JAL Airbus SE A350 miraculously s