BAGUIO CITY — Authorities have yet to identify the two fa talities of a deadly collision between a commuter van and a delivery van along the National Highway in Purok 2, Barangay Nagcuartelan, Aritao town in Nueva Vizcaya on Tuesday morning.
The accident occured at 6:28 a.m., according to the Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office-Emergency Response Team (NVPDRRMO-ERT).
NVPDRRMO-ERT said that the commuter van was traversing the highway when the driver was said to have lost control of the vehicle. The van uncontrollably sped up and collided with an approaching closed delivery van.
Because of the impact, the driver of the commuter van and the passenger beside him were pinned down, which made it hard for the responders to extract them out of the wreckage.
The victims were later announced dead because of their serious injuries.
The other 20 passengers of the commuter van sustained injuries and were attended to onsite by personnel of the NVPDRRMO.
All the passengers were brought to the hospital for treatment.
TOKYO, Japan — A Japan Airlines plane was in flames on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday after apparently colliding with a coast guard aircraft, television reports said.
The images on broadcaster NHK showed the plane moving along the runway before an explosion of orange flames burst from beneath and behind it.
All 367 passengers on board the Airbus plane were evacuated, broadcaster NHK report ed.
The cause of the incident was not immediately clear, but television reports said that the Airbus collided with a coast guard aircraft.
Reports said that the plane had just arrived from Sapporo airport on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
A coast guard official at Haneda Airport, one of the world’s busiest, said they were “checking details”.
“It’s not clear if there was a collision. But it is certain that our plane is involved,” he told AFP.
The telev ision footage showed flames coming out of windows and the plane’s nose on the ground as rescue workers sprayed it.
There was also burning debris on the runway.
More than 70 fire engines were being deployed, NHK reported.
Japan has not suffered a serious commercial aviation accident in decades.
Its worst ever was in 1985, when a JAL jumbo jet flying from Tokyo to Osaka crashed in central Gunma region, killing 520 passengers and crew.
That disaster was one of the world’s deadliest plane crashes involving a single flight.