The aircraft of the Coast Guard Japanese that was hit on Tuesday by a Boeing Japan Airlines in the airport Haneda de Tokyo He lacked permission to take off and should not have been on the runway, according to the first conclusions drawn from the communications and which seem to contradict the initial version of the surviving pilot.
A source of Ministry of Transportation confirmed that the air traffic controller at the airfield cleared the Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350 to land on runway C and ordered the Coast Guard aircraft to stay close to it. However, a Coast Guard source claimed that its pilot had received the green light to take off. Still, Japan’s Transportation Safety Board launched a full-scale investigation Wednesday and officials plan to interview the captains of both planes.
Japan Airlines maintains that its plane proceeded with the landing after confirming the procedure with the control tower and without being aware of any mishap on the runway, where in reality there was a second smaller aircraft that had been mobilized for the tasks. of aid after the powerful earthquake that shook the country in New Yearreports the Kiodo news agency.
The conversations recovered after the accident also show an order from the control tower for the plane to wait at a waiting point, off the runway. The crew responds affirmatively to this order, although it is not clear whether the voice appearing in the recording is that of the only survivor or that of his co-pilot, who died as a result of the accident.
The authorities do not rule out that there may be other interactions or even that the crew could have misinterpreted the instructions, which nevertheless seem clear.
The commercial plane crashed at 5:47 p.m. local time in Japan this Tuesday when it collided with a Coast Guard DHC-8 aircraft on landing at Haneda International Airport. The 367 passengers and 12 crew members of the JAL plane were evacuated from the plane, while five of the six people who were on board the DHC-8 They have passed away.