Plane crash in Tokyo: here is the Airbus pilots' version of the fatal collision

L'incendie survenu sur le tarmac de l'aéroport a fait 5 morts MAXPPP

Deux jours après la collision entre l'Airbus A350-900 et l'appareil des garde-côtes qui a provoqué un énorme incendie sur le tarmac de l'aéroport de Tokyo-Haneda ce mardi 2 janvier, les pilotes de l'avion sont revenus sur ce tragique accident.

The images went around the world. This Tuesday, January 2, an Airbus A350-900 in flames on the tarmac of Tokyo-Haneda airport after an impressive explosion. This dramatic incident caused the death of five people. 48 hours later, the pilots of the aircraft coming from Sapporo, in the north of the archipelago, spoke about the circumstances of this tragedy and explained that they had not seen the machine with which they collided and did not feel "the’impact" when landing according to South West.

"We could not have visual contact with the coast guard plane, the pilots told us", explains a JAL spokesperson, regarding the accident. "They say that it was just when the wheels touched the ground or were about to touch the ground that they felt an impact," he explains. "One of the three pilots told us he saw an object just before impact".

Intense heat in the device

The JAL spokesperson also indicated that the pilots were not aware that their plane was on fire. "Unlike vehicles, they do not have rear-view mirrors. When the fire started (at the rear of the aircraft), they could not see it from the cockpit. This is the cabin crew. who warned them.

Depending on TV channel NHK, they only learned of the fire when the cabin manager asked them for authorization to open the emergency exits, while the cabin began to be invaded by smoke and intense heat caused panic. Due to the fire, only two slides could be activated at the front of the plane.

"There will be many casualties"

Eighteen minutes would have passed between the impact, which occurred at 5:47 p.m., and the captain's descent onto the tarmac at 6:00 p.m. nbsp;h 05. "I am surprised that the passengers came out of the plane without any scratches due to the force of the impact. When we model this kind of accident on a runway, we assume that both planes will be destroyed and that there will be many victims, explained Guido Carim Junior, an expert at the ;rsquo;Griffith University in Australia, in comments relayed by Sud Ouest.

Even if all 379 passengers and crew members of the plane were able to disembark just before the plane's arrival, plane caught fire, five passengers on the Bombardier Dash 8, which was hit by the airbus, died. The latter were preparing to take off towards the Noto peninsula where the terrible earthquake the day before occurred.