A very unusual incident took place a short time ago at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. An Airbus 350 with 367 passengers collided with a Coast Guard plane on the runway while landing there. The JAL Airbus caught fire and, according to initial reports, at least most of the passengers survived.
Plane on fire after Tokyo collision
The unusual incident took place at one of the safest airports in the world, one of the safest planes in the world and one of the best and safest airlines in the world. What are the chances of something like this happening again and when was the last time a similar incident occurred?
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The person who directs the aircraft to the runway is the control tower. The control tower uses very advanced technologies to ensure that the runways are clear, especially in advanced airports such as Haneda At the same time, the control towers can clearly see the routes, both from the tower itself and through cameras and other technological aids.
The pilots in the cockpit can see the runway in the minutes before landing, if it is a clear day and good weather. Overly cloudy weather may delay pilots' full view of the runway, but pilots rarely land without seeing what awaits them on the runway, so the chances of such an event happening are very low.
A rare event that rarely happens, Photo: AP
In 2018, a similar event occurred that ended in a miracle. An Air Canada plane came within two meters of a Philippines plane on the runway at the San Francisco airport, and luckily, the Canadian plane picked up its nose and dodged hitting the Philippine plane.
Events of this type can happen, but it is important to calm down and understand that these are very rare and unusual events. At any given moment there are tens of thousands of planes in the sky, and incidents of this kind occur once every few years and in many cases end without casualties.
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