A Japan Airlines crash collided with another plane while landing, bursting into flames on the runway.
A Japan Airlines crash collided with another plane while landing on Tuesday.
  • A passenger on the Japan Airlines plane that caught fire spoke to The New York Times. 
  • He said passengers largely remained calm despite the intense danger. 
  • Crew managed to evacuate all 379 people from the plane as a fire raged. 

A passenger described how people on a Japan Airlines flight that collided with a plane while landing remained calm and evacuated the jet even as a blaze erupted.

Speaking to The New York Times, Anton Deibe, 17, said he and his family were flying to Tokyo on JAL flight 516 when it collided with a small coast guard plane while landing at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Tuesday.