05Jan, 25 JAL A350 collision probe strives to explain Dash 8’s failure to stop at runway holding point
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Japanese investigators have disclosed that a De Havilland Dash 8-300’s departure from Tokyo Haneda was supposed to be threaded between two arriving aircraft, before it entered the runway and was fatally struck by the first of them, a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900.
The collision left only one survivor, the captain, from the six occupants of the Dash 8, but all 379 on board the A350 escaped with just five sustaining injuries.
Japanese investigation authority JTSB has yet to reach final conclusions on …