Images and videos of a burning plane circulated on social networks yesterday, January 2 a Japan Airlines plane crashed into a plane of the Coast Guard.

Five Coast Guard crew members were killed in the accident All passengers and crew on the commercial plane were able to escape. before the fire consumed the device. A total of 367 passengers and 12 crew members were rescued.

How did they manage to evacuate in time? It is the question that users ask the most on social networks, because due to the size and rapid spread of the fire, it is not common for everyone to get out alive.

According to the airline The flight attendants followed their safety training and it took between 10 and 15 minutes to remove all passengers from the plane.including several children who were crying.

Some passengers described these moments of fear on social media, explaining how the crew asked them to remain calm, stay in place and cover their nose and mouth so as not to inhale the smoke as they opened the emergency doors.

In some cases, oxygen masks were deployed and some passengers began shouting and asking to be released, while others asked to listen to the crew and relay their instructions to those nearby.

Once the exits were opened and the emergency bridge deployed, the passengers were able to depart and the crew asked them to move away from the ship. Within half an hour it started to burn intensely, causing the windows and doors to explode.

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The rapid evacuation of the aircraft is attributed to emergency training for the crewbut also to the passenger disciplinein a country known for its respect for rules.

For example, in Tuesday’s tragedy, 14 people on the commercial plane were injured, while of the six occupants of the coast guard plane, only the captain, who was seriously injured, managed to save his life.

It is not the first time that a Japan Airlines plane has had a collision. JAL had already experienced a similar situation in 1985, when one of its planes crashed into a mountain on the Tokyo-Osaka route, killing 520 people among the 524 people on board, an accident that prompted the company to step up its safety training. staff. (JO)