‘Terrible error’: How two planes collided on Japan’s runway

Aviation Projects Managing Director Keith Tonkin says the crew of the Dash-8 plane appear to have made a “terrible error” in relation to the crash with the A350 aircraft. On Tuesday night, a Japan Airlines jet burst into flames following a collision with a smaller aircraft on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, despite the larger plane being given clearance to land. “It seems as though there’s been a terrible error made by the crew on the Coast Guard aircraft by taxiing onto the runway in front of the landing A350, that’s very regrettable no doubt,” he told Sky News Australia. “But there are lots of other things to think about in terms of the air traffic control procedures. “The communications, the weather, the crew, and all sorts of other different circumstances and factors that need to be considered and will be thoroughly investigated and reviewed before anyone starts making any findings about what happened and why.”