Firefighters work at Haneda International Airport after Japan Airlines' A350 airplane caught on fire, in Tokyo, Japan January 2, 2024.
Firefighters work at Haneda Airport after Japan Airlines' A350 airplane caught on fire in Tokyo.
  • Passengers aboard the Japan Airlines flight that collided with another aircraft described the ordeal.
  • One passenger said she thought was going to die.
  • Every person on board the commercial flight made it out alive, authorities say.

Chaos, hell, and billowing smoke.

That's how travelers aboard the Japan Airlines flight that collided with a Japanese-coast-guard aircraft on the runway at a Tokyo airport Tuesday described the terrifying ordeal that left the passenger plane engulfed in flames and five dead on the smaller one.