All 379 people on board have remarkably escaped a Japan Airlines Airbus that burst into flames on the runway after colliding with a smaller plane.

However, five of the six crew on the smaller coast guard plane at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport were tragically killed.

They had been helping with the relief effort after a deadly earthquake struck Japan on New Year’s Day.

Astonishing footage shows Flight 516 skidding down the runway at Haneda in a ball of flames before coming to a stop and becoming engulfed by the fire.

Everyone aboard the Airbus A350 managed to evacuate and survive the chaotic and frightening ordeal on Tuesday (AEDT).

Experts have credited the evacuation process and technology for the 367 passengers and 12 crew escaping with their lives.

Passenger Anton Deibe, 17,  told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet what happened after the plane’s touchdown and collision.

“The entire cabin was filled with smoke within minutes. The smoke in the cabin stung like hell. It was a hell,” he said.

“We threw ourselves down on the floor. Then the emergency doors were opened and we threw ourselves at them.

“We had no idea where we were going so we just run out into the field. It was chaos.”

Another passenger told Kyodo news agency: “I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed.

“I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin filled with gas and smoke.”

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The plane was later overwhelmed by the blaze, despite feverish efforts by rescue crews to control the fire. But not before all on board the flight from Hokkaido were removed.

Japan’s Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito confirmed that five of the coast guard aircraft’s crew had died.

The captain of the aircraft, a Bombardier-built Dash-8 maritime patrol plane, was injured.

It was the second tragedy in as many days in Japan.

On Monday, a powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed at least 55 people when it struck the Noto Peninsula on the west coast of Japan’s main island.

Rescue teams have struggled in freezing temperatures to reach coastal areas where many are feared trapped.

It’s also feared thousands of homes have been destroyed.

In Suzu, a town of about 5000 households near the quake’s epicentre, 90 per cent of houses may have been ruined, according to its mayor Masuhiro Izumiya.

“The situation is catastrophic,” he said.

The coast guard said the plane involved in the collision had been headed to Niigata airport on Japan’s west coast to deliver aid to those caught up in the earthquake.

Broadcaster NHK, citing the Tokyo Fire Department, said at least 17 of the people removed from the passenger plane were injured.

Shortly after the collision, an air traffic controller told pilots: “Airport is closed, Haneda airport is closed,” according to recordings on liveatc.net.

Footage and images shared on social media showed passengers shouting inside the smoke-filled cabin and running across the tarmac away from an evacuation slide.

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A spokesperson at Japan Airlines said its aircraft had departed from New Chitose airport on the mountainous northern island of Hokkaido.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed authorities to co-ordinate to assess the damage and provide information to the public, according to his office.

Transport minister Saito said the cause of the accident was unclear and the Japan Transport Safety Board, police and other departments would continue to investigate.

The collision occurred shortly after landing.

“The transport ministry will attempt to resume the operations of Haneda airport as soon as possible,” Saito said.

Haneda is one of two main airports serving the Japanese capital.

JAL’s rival Japanese airline ANA said it had cancelled 112 domestic flights departing and landing at Haneda for the rest of Tuesday due to the runway shutdown.

Kaoru Ishii, a mother who was waiting outside the arrival gate for her 29-year-old daughter and boyfriend coming back on the flight, said she initially thought it was delayed until her daughter called to explain.

“She said the plane had caught fire and she exited via a slide,” Ishii said.

“I was really relieved that she was all right.”