(AFP)A FedEx cargo plane en route from China crashed in high winds and exploded in a ball of flames Monday at Tokyo’s Narita airport, killing both pilots, according to Japanese hospital officials. The pair, both US citizens, were reportedly the only two people aboard the American parcel delivery company’s wide-body McDonnell Douglas MD-11, which was flying in from Guangzhou in southern China.
It was the first-ever fatal accident at Narita, Japan’s biggest airport, the government said, and reportedly the country’s first since 1996, when three people died in a Garuda Indonesia accident at Fukuoka Airport. It was not immediately known what caused the crash, but the meteorological agency said strong gusts were blowing and that it had on Sunday night warned airlines of wind shear — a dangerous condition for planes coming in to land.
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