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New images out tonight of the deadly plane crash that triggered an infore know on a tokyo runway. clues about what went wrong here. after japan airlines flight 516 with nearly 400 passengers and crew on it collided as you saw just there with a coast guard plane, a dash 8. some emergency doors were not functioning on the airliner, but the flight crew got all 367 passengers out as the cabin began to fill with spoke. as you can see in this video. but at least five people on the smaller coast guard aircraft were killed. they were headed to help with relief efforts in the earthquake zone in western...

Guard aircraft believed that they were cleared onto that runway. >> reporter: within seconds, japan airlines flight 516 carrying 379 passengers and crew crashed. the fireball almost instantly incinerating the coast guard plane. about a thousand yards down the runway, that's where flight 516 came to rest. all that's left now are the wings and part office the engines. inside the airliner, the cabin filling with smoke. five of the plane's eight emergency exits unusable. but the crew funneled nearly 400 people through the three remaining exits. tonight, we interviewed another captain -- >> communi...

>> reporter: tonight, japan's government releasing the potentially damning transcript of the communications, moments before the disaster, between air traffic controllers and the pilots of a japanese coast guard plane. moments before japan airlines flight 516 slammed into a japanese coast guard plane at 5:47 p.m. >> japan 516 continue approach 3-4 right. the logs show four minutes before the collision, air traffic control instructed the japan airlines jet to continue its approach. 5:45 p.m., air traffic control cleared the japan airways jet to land. ten seconds later, air traffic control instru...

Has major injuries. a fireball engulfs the runway at japan's haneda airport. an airbus coming in to land collides with a coastguard plane. tragically, the five people on the smaller aircraft are killed. japan airlines flight 516 remained ablaze as it continued down the runway, with 379 people on board. inside, passengers watched as sparks flew past their windows... shouting. ..as the pilot brought the plane to a stop. everyone was safely evacuated. ijust came here to pick up a friend. it was pretty scary — like, the whole airportjust froze. the people that were boarding planes all had to get...

This is what they'll be focusing on. >> japan 516 continue approach. >> reporter: communication with air traffic control. japanese authorities saying five members of that coast guard plane sitting on the runway were killed. this was part of the twin tragedies that struck japan within 24 hours. that coast guard flight headed to western japan to deliver aid after a massive 7.6 earthquake shook the country hours into the new year. the quake sparking fires and liquifying the ground, triggering mudslides. the death toll there rising. at least 55 people have died, as rescuers race to find trapped re...