How hundreds of passengers escaped a burning Japan Airlines plane: "I can only say it was a miracle"
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All 367 passengers and 12 crew members on Japan Airlines flight JAL-516 managed to escape the plane before it was fully engulfed in flames after a collision on the runway at Toyko's Haneda Airport on Tuesday, according to Japanese Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito.
Television footage showed an orange fireball erupting as the Japan Airlines plane collided with a smaller coast guard plane while landing, and the airliner spewed smoke from its side as it continued down the runway. The pilot of the coast guard's Bombardier Dash-8 plane escaped, but five crew members died, Saito said.
Within 20 minutes, all passengers and crew members on the passenger jet had slid down emergency chutes to get away from the plane, the Associated Press reported.
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