Transport officials and police begin investigation after planes collided at Haneda Airport

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Transport officials and police have begun two separate investigations after a Japan Airlines Airbus A350 collided with a Coast Guard aircraft at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.

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00:00 All eyes here at the airport and really across much of Japan are on this runway and the enormous

00:09 wreckage behind me.

00:11 Today the Japanese police and the Japan Transport Safety Board inspected the crash site and

00:18 the wreckage and authorities have reportedly found the black box from the smaller Coast

00:23 Guard plane but they are still searching for the recordings from the passenger jet.

00:28 Now the transport investigation is expected to be global with agencies from France and

00:35 Britain where the plane and its engines were manufactured also contributing.

00:41 Now Japan Airlines has said that its crew have reported back to the company that they

00:46 were told to proceed with the landing after confirming with air traffic control that there

00:51 were no abnormalities with the plane during the flight and of course it's expected that

00:55 the investigation will take a serious look at the instructions given to both planes while

01:01 they were on the runway.

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