Japan Airlines counts losses from wrecked Tokyo plane

Japan Airlines on Thursday said it expected losses of more than $100 million after one of its planes was destroyed when it collided with another aircraft on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport this week.
All 379 people on board the JAL Airbus A350 widebody jet escaped before the plane was completely engulfed in flames that took more than six hours to extinguish.
But five of the six crew of the other aircraft – a smaller Coast Guard plane that had been on its way to deliver aid to quake-hit regions on Japan’s west coast – were killed, with the surviving pilot badly injured.
As investigators combed the charred wreckage on Thursday, transport authorities are probing the circumstances that led to the Coast Guard plane entering the runway where the passenger jet was landing. Police are also looking into possible professional negligence in the case, according to media reports.