Tokyo: Five people died in a Japan coast guard aircraft hit to a Japan Airlines passenger plane on the ground in a fiery collision at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday.

Speaking to the media persons Japanese Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito said that all 379 passengers and crew on board the passenger plane were safely evacuated which burst into flames. But five of the six crew members from the smaller plane died, he added.

The captain escaped and survived but was injured, we’re not at the stage to explain the cause of the accident, he said. According to the electronic media and social media reports the Japan Airlines (JAL) airliner moving along the runway before a large eruption of orange flames and black smoke burst from beneath and behind it.

All 367 passengers plus 12 crew onboard were swiftly taken off the plane before dozens of fire engines with flashing blue lights sprayed the fuselage. They however failed to put out the flames coming out of windows near the wings and the blaze soon engulfed the entire aircraft.