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Japan Airlines plane collides with Coast Guard aircraft; 5 dead

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A Japan Airlines plane carrying nearly 400 people caught fire as it landed on a runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Tuesday evening (local time), BBC reported. The blaze erupted after the airline's Airbus A350 possibly collided with a Coast Guard aircraft. Five crew members on the latter were killed, while all passengers and crew members on the passenger plane were evacuated, per Reuters.