More than 300 Tokyo-bound travelers were greeted with a fiery surprise as their Japan Airlines flight landed at Haneda Airport on Tuesday, their aircraft bursting into flames after crashing into a Coast Guard airplane.


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Though all of the Airbus A350’s 367 passengers and 12 crew members were able to safely evacuate the aircraft per Japan Airlines, the Coast Guard craft wasn’t nearly as lucky. Five of the plane’s six passengers, who were headed to drop off supplies in Japan’s Ishikawa prefecture after Monday’s 7.6 magnitude earthquake, died in the collision.




“They were filled with a determined sense of mission, and it is extremely regrettable and distressing what has happened to them,” said Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, per the New York Times. “I express my profound condolences to their surviving families.”


While upwards of 70 firefighter vehicles arrived at the airport to help extinguish the massive inferno, the blaze was still going strong two hours into efforts, according to ABC News. 


So take it from this deadly incident — air traffic controllers are tired.