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Plane Wreckage Being Cleared From Tokyo Airport After Collision

All 367 passengers and 12 crew on board the Japan Airlines plane escaped down emergency slides (Credit: AFP)

Japanese workers began clearing the burnt wreckage of a passenger jet on Friday, three days after a near-catastrophic collision with a coast guard plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.

Five of the six crew on the smaller aircraft died in the incident on Tuesday but all 379 people on the Japan Airlines Airbus were evacuated just before it was engulfed in flames.

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