Japanese airlines shooting: Twelve Australians on board a passenger plane that collided with a coast guard plane

At least a dozen Australians were reportedly aboard a Japan Airlines flight when it collided with a coast guard plane in a deadly, fiery crash at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.

The commercial plane collided with a light aircraft as it landed on a runway at Japan’s second-busiest airport on Tuesday evening, killing five of the six crew members aboard the smaller plane.

All 379 on board Japan Airlines Flight 516 survived, including 12 Australians who all landed safely before the plane went up in flames.

There are currently no reports of injured Australians, Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt said.

“I know Japan is quite a popular tourist destination for Australians at this time of year. My understanding is that there were approximately 12 Australian passengers on those planes during the plane crash, but no one was injured,” Wyatt told Sky News on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese later told reporters: “All these people are safe and accountable.”

He urged Australians in need of urgent consular assistance to contact the federal government’s 24-hour consular emergency response centre.

Foreign Affairs officials are now working to check in with Australians on board the flight.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted the department for further comment.

Shocking footage showed the Japan Airlines plane being engulfed by a raging fire as it stood on the runway of Haneda Airport in Ota City, Tokyo, with flames pouring from the passenger windows.

A spokesperson for Japan Airlines told Japanese broadcaster NHK that all 367 passengers and 12 crew members on board JAL Flight 516 Airbus A-350 at the time of the explosion had been successfully evacuated from the stricken aircraft.

Five of the six crew members aboard the smaller plane bound for central Japan were killed.

The victims were on their way to help earthquake victims.

‘These were employees with a great sense of mission and responsibility for the affected areas. It is very regrettable,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters.

‘I express my respect and gratitude for their sense of mission.

Tuesday night’s aviation disaster was Japan’s worst since 1985, when a JAL plane crashed in the central Gunma region, killing 520 passengers and crew.

Aussies were among 379 passengers and crew on board the Japan Airlines plane who managed to escape the burning plane

The investigation into the incident was still ongoing.

According to the preliminary report, former Australian air traffic controller Michelle Robson believed the Coast Guard aircraft had not been cleared to enter the runway before the fateful crash.

“This is obviously not an official transcript, but it appears they were told to stay close to the runway at the take-off point,” she told Nine News.

‘Normally a controller would be able to see both from the tower, with his eyes or binoculars, but it was at night.

“So they have additional security, which is the surface motion radar, which would have allowed the plane to move.”