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Japan Tightens Air Traffic Control Protocols After Crash

All 379 passengers and crew on the airliner were swiftly evacuated, but five of the six crew died on the smaller plane (Credit: AFP)

Japan has tightened its air traffic control protocols after a fiery collision at Tokyo's main airport in which five people died but hundreds escaped to safety, the government said Wednesday.

The emergency safety measures were announced by the transport ministry after a Japan Airlines passenger jet crashed into a coast guard aircraft on a runway at Haneda Airport on January 2.

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