A passenger plane caught fire on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday, the BBC and Reuters reported. According to the first data, there were more than 300 passengers on board.

A plane is on fire on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda AirportPhoto: Rapture

According to the Japanese Coast Guard, there is information that there was a collision between a Japan Airlines plane that had just landed and a Japanese Coast Guard plane, NHK TV channel reports. The collision may have occurred during the landing of the Japan Airlines plane.

Footage captured by a camera installed by the NHK television station at Haneda Airport shows flames shooting out of the windows of a Japan Airlines plane. The incident happened just after 18:00 local time (11:00 Romanian time), writes News.ro. Black smoke is also coming out, and the video shows how they are trying to put out the fires.

Several fire trucks are on site, spraying water from hoses.