Japan Coastguard plane that involved in a fatal collision was not cleared for take-off
The smaller aeroplane collided with a Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger jet on the runway on Tuesday.
Newly released transcripts of air traffic control instructions just before the crash confirmed the JAL Airbus A350 was cleared to land.
Permission for take-off was not given to the coastguard Bombardier Dash-8.
According to officials, the JAL flight was cleared to land on runway 34R at Haneda. At the same time, the coastguard aircraft was told to "taxi to holding point C5" - a place on the airfield's taxiway system where aircraft await permission to enter the active runway for take-off.
The transcript shows the coastguard aircraft acknowledged the call from air traffic to taxi to the holding point - its last transmission before the collision.
The transcripts appear to contradict the coastguard plane's captain - the only one of the six crew to survive - who told investigators he had been given permission to enter the runway which the JAL airliner was approaching.
All 379 passengers and crew on board the state of the art JAL Airbus were safely evacuated after the collision, police said.
Japan Airlines Flight 516 had departed from Sapporo's New Chitose airport at 16:00 local time (07:00 GMT) and landed at Haneda shortly before 18:00.
Flames engulfed the airliner shortly after it landed.
"I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed," one passenger told Kyodo news agency. "I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin filled with gas and smoke."
Passengers escaped via evacuation slides and ran to safety, footage and photos showed.
TV footage showed several fire engines at the scene as smoke and flames billowed from the Airbus. Footage from inside the aircraft showed passengers surrounded by thick smoke.
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