Investigation Begins into Deadly Plane Collision at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport

Officials look at the burnt wreckage of a Japan Airlines passenger plane on the tarmac at Tokyo International Airport at Haneda in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2024, the morning after the JAL airliner hit a smaller coast guard plane on the ground.

Authorities have launched a formal investigation into the cause of Tuesday night’s collision between a Japanese passenger jet and a Japanese coast guard plane on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, killing five coast guard crewmembers.