marking the first Airbus A350 hull loss, RIP to the Coast Guards

Japan Airlines Flight 516

On 2 January 2024, at approximately 17:47 JST (08:47 UTC), a runway collision occurred between Japan Airlines Flight 516, an Airbus A350-900, and a De Havilland Canada Dash 8 operated by the Japanese Coast Guard. Flight 516 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New Chitose Airport near Sapporo, Japan, to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. While Flight 516 was landing at Haneda Airport, the two aircraft collided and caught fire. The collision killed five of the six crew onboard the Dash 8, but all 367 passengers and 12 crew were evacuated from the A350 with no loss of life.

Both aircraft were destroyed by fire following the crash, marking the first serious incident involving an A350 and the first hull loss of the type since its introduction in 2015, as well as the first hull loss by accident of an all-composite aircraft. It was both the first fatal accident and the first hull loss involving a Japan Airlines aircraft since the crash of Flight 123 in 1985.


JA13XJ (Flight 516) Wreckage

the planes on fire.....

it's hard to see one of the most advanced and newest airliner to be involved in a serious accident

so that settles the debate, 787 is safer than A350 (I'm just joking I believe it's cause by pilot or ATC error)

the collision (I like the Star Wars 787)

Gallery

he's behind me, isn't he?