Tokyo Jet Crash – On Tuesday, December 2, a large Japan Airlines passenger jet and a smaller Coast Guard aircraft collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The impact caused the larger plane to catch fire. All 379 passengers and crew from the airline’s plane survived. Many people are curious as to how the aircraft, although catching fire, managed to escape with the passengers without exploding upon impact. This is the possible course of events.
Here Is What Happened In The Incident
Tokyo Jet Crash – The JAL plane, an Airbus A350-900, landed at 5:46 pm and hit a smaller plane from the Japan Coast Guard. The captain had clearance to land but did not see the other plane. Experts are baffled by this kind of accident because the aviation industry has better safety measures now. Passengers felt scared and confused when smoke filled the cabin. Some of them freaked out and some helped children. The crew acted quickly and safely to get people out of the plane. They used emergency exits and everyone was out in 20 minutes. Passengers followed safety rules and left their things behind to make the evacuation faster.
How did the jet avoid exploding on impact?
Tokyo Jet Crash – The Airbus A350 uses a lot of carbon fibre composites, which are safer than older planes. Composites make the plane lighter and save fuel, unlike traditional metal-based planes. The wings and the fuselage are mainly made of composites, with some metals like aluminium, steel, and titanium. The seats and other interior parts are made of materials that don’t burn easily to protect passengers from fire. Sometimes an impact or a crash doesn’t cause an explosion right away, especially if the important parts are not badly damaged or broken.
First Time in Aviation History
This is the first time an A350 has been wrecked since it started flying in 2015, so experts will examine it carefully to learn how this kind of plane handles extreme stress. The A350 is similar to the Boeing 787, which began flying in 2011, as the second-newest wide-body plane. It is mostly made of carbon-fiber composite, not aluminum like older planes. This makes it light and strong, as shown by the fact that the A350’s nose was crushed after it hit the Dash 8, but the rest of the front part of the plane, including the cockpit, was mostly intact. Carbon burns, unlike aluminum, but the composite with resin burns slowly, which gave the passengers enough time to get out.
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