Crews finish clearing plane wreckage from deadly Japan runway collision

Workers at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport cleaned up the burnt wreckage of a Japan Airlines (JAL) widebody aircraft on Sunday (January 7), five days after its collision with a coast guard plane, in preparation for reopening of the runway. Machinery worked at the site of the wrecked Airbus, while another lifted debris onto a large lorry as around a dozen personnel in white overalls and hard hats watched on. Japanese media reported that the cockpit voice recorder from the JAL plane was found during the removal of the aircraft debris on Saturday (January 6) and a discreet investigation would be conducted. All 379 people on the JAL aircraft escaped before it was engulfed in flames, but five of the six crew on the Coast Guard craft died. More than 200 flights have been cancelled on Sunday at Haneda, the world’s third-busiest airport, but the situation is expected to improve as the airport prepares to resume operations on the runway, according to the public broadcaster NHK. Read more: https: