Japan Airlines plane bursts into flames at Tokyo airport
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
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From the BBC World Service: A plane carrying nearly 400 passengers caught fire while landing at Haneda Airport in Tokyo; everyone aboard the passenger aircraft successfully evacuated after a collision with coast guard plane. We bring you the latest developments. Also on the show: a Hong Kong mogul pleads not guilty to national security crimes, the Czech president calls for euro adoption, and a look ahead to the year in tech.
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| 0:00.0 | Hundreds flee burning Japan Airlines plane on a Tokyo runway. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and you're listening to the Marketplace Morning Report live from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Leanna Byrne and a very good morning to you. |
| 0:12.0 | A plane carrying nearly 400 passengers had caught fire while landing in Hanida Airport in Tokyo. |
| 0:18.0 | Reports suggest that a Coast Guard plane collided with the aircraft, the Japanese Airlines flight from Hakaido, burst into flames as a |
| 0:25.1 | touchdown. Runways at the airport are all closed and domestic arrival flights are being diverted |
| 0:30.1 | to six other airports in Japan. The BBC Sir and Janet Tuare is following |
| 0:34.3 | developments. We saw the fire start. It was quite isolated on one part of the |
| 0:41.0 | plane initially and for about 20 minutes and it very quickly |
| 0:45.8 | spread to what we're seeing now. |
| 0:50.5 | Whether it's 279 or 400 passengers the fact that they managed to get so many |
| 0:56.6 | passengers off the plane and in such a short space of time and is is really quite extraordinary. |
| 1:04.6 | Sir and Janet how are we there? |
| 1:06.1 | Now let's see the numbers. |
| 1:08.3 | The price of oil has ticked up slightly with Brent Crude up 2% following reports that Iran has sent a |
| 1:13.7 | warship to the Red Sea increasing tensions in the Suez Canal shipping route. |
| 1:17.9 | And the Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner and former newspaper boss Jimmy Lye has pleaded not guilty |
| 1:24.3 | after a case against him resumed on Tuesday. Mr Lye faces two cancers |
| 1:28.8 | conspiracy to collode of foreign forces and conspiracy to publish seditious material. |
| 1:33.6 | Here's the BBC's Luke Wilson. |
| 1:36.2 | Mr Lye, who's 76, was flanked by three prison officers in the dock as he listened to the |
| 1:41.5 | indictment. He's been held in solitary confinement |
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