5 killed after Japan Airlines plane collides with coast guard aircraft, bursts into flames: LIVE

Local TV reports that 5 Japanese Coast Guard crewmembers had been recovered dead

TOKYO, Japan -- A level burst into flames connected the runway of Tokyo's Haneda airdrome connected Tuesday, with quality reports saying it deed different craft aft landing.

The commercialized craft landed astatine astir 5:47 p.m. section clip and whitethorn person struck a Japanese seashore defender plane, officials told Japanese broadcaster NHK.

NHK TV reported that each occupants of Japan Airlines formation JAL-516, believed to full 367 passengers and 12 unit members got retired safely earlier the level was wholly engulfed successful flames. The Japanese seashore defender said the aviator of its level had escaped, however, NHK reported that the 5 different crewmembers had been recovered dead.

Local TV video showed a ample eruption of occurrence and fume from the broadside of the Japan Airlines level arsenic it taxied connected a runway. The country astir the helping past caught fire. Footage an hr aboriginal showed the level afloat connected fire.

NHK TV said the level was an Airbus A-350 that had flown from Shin Chitose airport, adjacent the metropolis of Sapporo, to Haneda.

Video captures infinitesimal Japan Airlines level bursts into flames astatine Tokyo International Airport

Coast Guard spokesperson Yoshinori Yanagishima confirmed the collision betwixt the rider level and its formation MA-722, a Bombardier Dash-8.

Swede Anton Deibe, 17, who was a rider connected the Japan Airlines plane, told Swedish paper Aftonbladet that "the full compartment was filled with fume wrong a fewer minutes. We threw ourselves down connected the floor. Then the exigency doors were opened and we threw ourselves astatine them.

"The fume successful the compartment stung similar hell. It was a hell. We person nary thought wherever we are going truthful we conscionable tally retired into the field. It was chaos," added Deibe, who was traveling with his parents and sister.

Live video from the airport, an planetary hub connected the outskirts of Tokyo, showed firefighters battling flames that person engulfed the aircraft's fuselage.

Kyodo said the seashore defender plane, which is based astatine Haneda, had been owed to caput to Niigata to present alleviation goods to residents affected by a deadly earthquake successful the portion connected Monday that killed astatine slightest 48 people.

Haneda is 1 of the busiest airports successful Japan, and galore radical question implicit the New Year holidays.

ABC News and the Associated Press contributed to this post.