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Matt Watts

Japan passenger jet in fatal crash ‘had been given clearance to land’

Investigators on Wednesday began inspecting the wreckage of a crash between two planes at Tokyo Haneda airport, as Japanese media reported police were looking into possible professional negligence behind the catastrophic collision.

The probe opened as Japan Airlines said its passenger jet carrying 379 people which collided with a coastguard plane as it touched down on a runway at the international airport had been given permission to land.

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