Two planes at Tokyo’s Haneda airport collided on the ground Tuesday, killing five people on a Japan coast guard plane and engulfing a packed passenger plane in flames. Everyone on the passenger plane survived.
“A ground collision like this is an incredibly unusual event but, sadly, when they happen they tend to have very tragic consequences,” said Graham Braithwaite, a professor of safety and accident investigation at Cranfield University in England.
He said the industry aims to have everybody off a plane in 90 seconds and airport firefighters battling blazes within three minutes.
Both Brathwaite and Paul Hayes, director of air safety at U.K.-based aviation consultancy Ascend by Cirium,
