PARIS (Reuters) – A team of forensic experts from planemaker Airbus and French state agency BAE will arrive in Japan on Wednesday to help authorities investigate the deadly accident involving a A350 plane at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, they said on Tuesday.
“4 @BEA_Aero investigators will be on site tomorrow joined by 5 @Airbus technical advisors,” the BEA agency said in a post on social media platform X.
The aircraft involved was MSN 538, delivered to Japan Airlines after production in November 2021 and was powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines, Airbus said in a separate statement.
The Japan Airlines airliner burst into flames on Tuesday as it skidded down the tarmac following a collision with a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft that killed five of six crew on the smaller craft.
All 367 passengers and 12 crew were evacuated from the blaze which destroyed the airliner.
(Reporting by Piotr Lipinski, editing by Tassilo Hummel)
