Reports indicate that all 379 passengers and crew escaped miraculously from the fire after a Japan Airlines flight was involved in a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft on landing at Tokyo Haneda airport, on Tuesday, January 2, reports indicate.

Unfortunately, it is reported that five of the six crew of the coast guard plane were killed. Japan's Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito confirmed that five of the coast guard aircraft's crew had died. The captain of the aircraft, a Bombardier-built Dash-8 maritime patrol plane, was injured.

The Coast Guard said the collision involved one of its planes that was headed to Niigata airport on Japan's west coast to deliver aid to those caught up in a powerful earthquake that struck on New Year's Day, killing at least 48 people.

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Footage released by the national broadcaster NHK showed the aircraft, an Airbus A350 in flames on landing at Toyko Haneda.

Saito said the cause of the accident was unclear and the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB), police and other departments would continue to investigate.

"The transport ministry will attempt to resume the operations of Haneda airport as soon as possible," Saito said.

Haneda is one of the two main airports serving the Japanese capital. JAL's rival Japanese airline ANA announced that it cancelled 112 domestic flights departing and landing at Haneda for the rest of Tuesday due to the runway shutdown.