Japan Airlines counts losses from wrecked Tokyo plane

TOKYO: Japan Airlines (JAL) on Thursday (Jan 4) said it expected losses of about 15 billion yen (US$105 million) after one of its planes was destroyed when it collided with another aircraft on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport this week. All 379 people on board the JAL Airbus A350 widebody jet escaped before the plane was completely engulfed in flames that took more than six hours to extinguish. But five of the six crew of the other aircraft – a smaller Coast Guard plane that had been on its way to deliver aid to quake-hit regions on Japan’s west coast – were killed, with the surviving pilot badly injured. The loss of the aircraft will be covered by insurance,…