5 killed as jet collides with coast guard plane

A fiery collision Tuesday between a Japan Airlines passenger jet and a coast guard plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport killed five coast guard crew members, but all 367 passengers and 12 crew of the commercial jet escaped shortly before it became engulfed, officials said. The pilot of the coast guard aircraft MA722 was in critical condition,tokyo officials said.

The head of the Transport Ministry Civil Aviation Bureau says the collision occurred when the Japan Airlines' Airbus A350 landed on a runway where the coast guard aircraft was preparing to take off. The coast guard plane had been preparing to deliver relief goods to residents affected by a deadly earthquake in the region on Monday.