The wreckage of the Japan Airlines plane at Tokyo’s Haneda airport is testimony to the fierceness of the blaze that consumed it on Monday evening after it collided with a smaller plane.
For investigators and aviation experts, the episode — and how all 379 people onboard the JAL flight managed to escape — is likely to yield important insights into the modern materials used to build many aircraft and the best ways of safely evacuating passengers in emergencies.
The crash was the first loss of an Airbus A350, a model that entered service in 2015, and first complete destruction by fire of an airliner made largely from carbon fibre, a material increasingly used in aerospace.
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