2024届高考英语外刊阅读天天练：综合训练十

高考英语外刊阅读天天练 综合训练十 I 阅读理解 题源'A miracle': 379 passengers and crew escape jet inferno after collision on Tokyo runway leaves five dead 【The Guardian (January 3, 2024)】 All crew and passengers onboard a Japan Airlines jet managed to make what has been described as a “miracle" escape after a horrific collision on a runway at Haneda airport in Tokyo that killed five crew members of a coastguard plane. JAL flight 516, an Airbus A350-900, was engulfed in flames soon after landing as it struck the smaller coastguard aircraft, which was waiting to deliver aid to the earthquake-hit Noto peninsula. Once the captain of the commercial jet managed to bring the burning aircraft to a stop, its 367 passengers, including eight children, plus 12 crew fled the plane's smoke-filled cabin by sliding down inflatable slides at its front. The jet was soon entirely engulfed by fire, with flames seen licking out of the cabin's windows. The Tokyo fire department said 14 of those evacuated from the passenger plane suffered minor injuries including burns to the throat. Four were taken to hospital. Five of the six people onboard the coastguard plane, a De Havilland Canada DHC-8, commonly known as the Dash 8, were killed in the collision but its captain managed to escape the inferno with injuries. Passengers on the Japan Airlines jet spoke of their terror after hearing the thud of the initial impact. Social media footage from inside the cabin showed how passengers could see the flames at the rear exterior of the plane through the cabin windows as it continued down the runway immediately after the collision. “I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed," a passenger on the Japan Airlines flight told Kyodo news agency. "I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin filled with gas and smoke." The ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism and the national transportation safety board was investigating why both planes were on the same runway. Hiroyuk