Videos show the moment in which the accident of the plane that crashed at the Tokyo airport began

A Japan Airlines plane caught fire on Tuesday on a runway at Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Japan), according to images broadcast by Japanese public television NHK, which like other local media reported a collision with another aircraft. All 367 passengers and 12 crew members of the Japan Airlines flight were evacuated from the plane, according to NHK. Among the passengers were eight children, the Japanese news agency Kyodo reported.

However, Five of the six people on board the other aircraft involved in the accident, a Japanese coast guard plane, are missing, accurate NHK. The sixth occupant managed to leave the device.

LOOK: A Japan Airlines plane with hundreds of passengers catches fire at Tokyo airport | VIDEO

In images taken at 5:47 p.m. local (08:47 GMT), the plane could be seen Japan Airlines taxiing down the runway before a large explosion left a trail of flames behind the aircraft, which stopped a little further ahead.

According to several local media, it was this JAL 5016 passenger plane, an Airbus A50-900 coming from the Shin-Chitose Airport, near Sapporo, in the north of Japanthe fact that collided with a Japanese coast guard plane.

“It is not clear whether there was a collision or not. But what is certain is that our plane was involved,” a coast guard official at Tokyo Haneda airport told AFP.

For its part, Japan Airlines stated that its aircraft had collided with the other shortly after landing, according to the Kyodo news agency, which added that the Japanese Ministry of Transport was investigating the accident.

The runway was covered in debris and more than 70 fire trucks rushed to the scene, according to Japanese public television.

Tokyo Haneda is one of the two international airports in the Japanese capital and one of the busiest in the world.

Accidents involving passenger aircraft are extremely rare in Japan.

The most serious occurred in 1985, when a Japan Airlines plane crashed between Tokyo and Osaka, killing 520 people, in one of the worst air disasters in the world.

Japan It was also still shaken on Tuesday by the violent earthquake that hit the Noto peninsula, in the center of the country, the day before, and which caused at least 48 deaths, according to a new provisional balance from local authorities.