Video appears to show passengers shouting inside a Japan Airlines plane as it tried to land while engulfed in flames amid earthquake chaos

  • A video shared online appears to show passengers inside a plane while it was engulfed in flames.

  • The Japan Airlines flight was on fire Tuesday as it landed on a runway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.

  • All 379 people on board safely evacuated.

A video appears to show the terror of passengers inside a Japan Airlines plane that was engulfed in flames as it landed on a runway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.

The plane, which had taken off from Sapporo on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, collided Tuesday with an earthquake-relief plane.

A video posted by the X user @alto_maple alongside the caption, "I thought I was going to die," shows passengers shouting and getting up from their seats while attempting to evacuate the smoke-filled cabin.

Firefighters work at Haneda International Airport after Japan Airlines' A350 airplane caught on fire, in Tokyo, Japan January 2, 2024.
Flames rise from the engine of the Japan Airlines plane as it lands at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.Issei Kato/Reuters

Another clip, apparently filmed by the same passenger from the plane window, shows flames bursting from under a wing as the aircraft touches down.

Business Insider was unable to independently verify the footage.

"I felt a boom, like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed," a passenger on the Japan Airlines flight told the Japanese outlet Kyodo News. "I saw sparks outside the window, and the cabin filled with gas and smoke."

Separate footage from Japanese TV news networks shows flames rising from the engine of the plane as it landed at Tokyo's Haneda airport, and passengers escaping down inflatable slides and then running away as the fire spread.

Officials said that all 379 crew and passengers on board Japan Airlines Flight 516 safely evacuated.

The Japan Airlines plane, flying route JL 516, was an Airbus 350-900, according to information from the flight-tracking site FlightAware.

Five of the six crew members on the Japanese coast guard's earthquake-relief plane, an MA722, have been confirmed dead, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported. The captain is believed to be seriously injured.

The coast-guard aircraft had been traveling from Haneda Airport to help with relief efforts following a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Japan on Monday. At least 48 people were killed, and search and rescue teams are still combing through rubble to find survivors.

Videos broadcast on Japanese TV appear to show cracks in roads, subway trains shaking, and buildings collapsing.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said there's a 10% to 20% chance more earthquakes of similar magnitude could hit within the next few days.

Japan Airlines did not immediately respond BI's request for comment.

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