Crews finish clearing plane wreckage from Japan runway collision

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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.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Workers at Tokyo's Haneda Airport cleaned up the burnt wreckage of a Japan Airlines

00:08 wide-body aircraft on Sunday, five days after its collision with a Coast Guard plane, in

00:13 preparation for reopening of the runway.

00:16 Machinery worked at the site of the wrecked Airbus, while another lifted debris onto a

00:21 large lorry as around a dozen personnel in white overalls and hard hats watched on.

00:27 Japanese media reported that the cockpit voice recorder from the Japan Airlines plane was

00:32 found during the removal of the aircraft debris on Saturday, and a discrete investigation

00:37 would be conducted.

00:39 All 379 people on the aircraft escaped before it was engulfed in flames, but five of the

00:45 six crew on the Coast Guard craft died.

00:49 More than 200 flights have been cancelled on Sunday at Haneda, but the situation is

00:53 expected to improve as the airport prepares to resume operations on the runway.

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