'It was a hell': Five crew members dead after planes collide at Tokyo airport

Police are expected to investigate the accident on suspicion of professional negligence, NHK television reported.

A Japan Airlines plane is on fire on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda airport. Picture: STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images

A passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and burst into flames, with five people on the smaller plane killed, officials said.

All 379 people on Japan Airlines flight JAL-516 got out safely before the plane was engulfed in flames, transport minister Tetsuo Saito confirmed.