{"id":14959,"date":"2024-01-02T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T01:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/inside-the-chaos-on-the-japan-airlines-flight-after-the-tokyo-crash-that-left-5-dead\/02\/01\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T01:10:11","slug":"inside-the-chaos-on-the-japan-airlines-flight-after-the-tokyo-crash-that-left-5-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/inside-the-chaos-on-the-japan-airlines-flight-after-the-tokyo-crash-that-left-5-dead\/02\/01\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the chaos on the Japan Airlines flight after the Tokyo crash that left 5 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For one passenger aboard the airliner that collided with a Japan <\/a>c<\/a>oast <\/a>g<\/a>uard plane<\/a> at a Tokyo airport, the first inkling something was wrong came when he felt a very \u201cwarm sensation\u201d on the left side of his face.<\/p>\n

Anton Deibe said his Japan Airlines flight was seconds away from landing at Haneda Airport when he first noticed it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look to the left, and I see flames all over the windows, and the plane starts to shake and all the lights turn dark and everyone starts screaming in Japanese and I can\u2019t understand anything,\u201d he said in a video diary obtained by NBC News.<\/p>\n

Seconds later, the 17-year-old Swedish tourist \u2014 along with 366 other passengers and a dozen crew members \u2014 were clambering off the plane through choking black smoke and running for their lives as flames consumed the airliner they had just been on.<\/p>\n

Five people on the coast guard plane, which had been bound for an earthquake-ravaged corner of Japan <\/a>at the time of the crash, died.<\/p>\n

Aviation expert John Cox told NBC News that the Japan Airlines plane was an Airbus A350, which seats about 380 people. He said that in an emergency like this “you want to get them out within 90 seconds.”<\/p>\n

Cox credited the crew for getting everybody off the plane in time, and praised the passengers for following their instructions.<\/p>\n

“This is the way you do it,” he said. “You follow the instructions, go to the exit you get on the slide and you get away from the aircraft and that\u2019s what happened here. And that\u2019s why it was so successful.”<\/p>\n

Deibe, who said his parents and sister were also on the flight, said when he first felt the heat on his face, \u201cmy first thought was that maybe we had hit a bird.\u201d<\/p>\n

A woman interviewed by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, known as NHK, also thought the plane had struck a bird.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter landing, there was this loud bang,” the woman, who was not identified by name, said in an interview translated by NBC News. “At first I thought it was a bird strike or something, and then I thought that something big had happened because of the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deibe said that “the plane continued to shake and then we touched down on the ground” before screeching to a stop.<\/p>\n

Looking outside the window, Deibe said he saw “the black smoke everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then it felt like an eternity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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