Japan Airlines estimates loss of about $104.8 mln from collision

January 4, 2024 @ 8:33am

Officials look at the burnt wreckage of a Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger plane on the tarmac at Tokyo International Airport at Haneda in Tokyo on January 3, 2024, the morning after the JAL airliner hit a smaller coast guard plane on the ground. Five people aboard a Japan coast guard aircraft died on January 2 when it hit a Japan Airlines passenger plane on the ground in a fiery collision at Tokyo's Haneda airport. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)

TOKYO: Japan Airlines Co (JAL) estimated on Thursday that the collision of its flight JL516 with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft on Jan. 2 will result in an operating loss of about 15 billion yen ($104.81 million).

The loss will be covered by the insurance, the company said.

The company is currently assessing the impact of the loss of the aircraft on the consolidated financial performance forecast ending March 2024.

JAL also said it will disclose any necessary information immediately as they arise.

All 379 people aboard the JAL airliner managed to evacuate the burning plane after the collision with the Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport. Five of six crew on the smaller aircraft were killed in the crash. - Reuters

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