The evacuation of a Japan Airlines plane has been praised as a success, but the coastguard mourned the death of five of the six crew from one of its aircraft

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All 379 passengers and crew on a Japan Airlines plane have made a miraculous escape after the jet hit another aircraft when landing at Haneda airport in Tokyo and hurtled down the runway in flames.

The evacuation of the twin-engine airliner has been praised as an extraordinary success, although the Japanese coastguard was mourning the death of five of the six crew from one of its aircraft, which was destroyed in the collision.