Japan Airlines estimates operating loss of about $105 mn from collision

Japan Airlines on Thursday said it expected more than $100 million in losses after one of its planes was destroyed when it collided with another aircraft on the runway as it landed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport earlier this week.

All 379 people on board the JAL Airbus A350 widebody jet escaped before the plane was completely engulfed in flames that took more than six hours to extinguish.

But five of the six crew of the other aircraft – a smaller Coast Guard plane that had been on its way to deliver aid to quake-hit regions on Japan’s west coast – were killed, with the surviving pilot badly injured.