Monday, 23 March 2009, Tokyo - A FedEx Corp (FDX.N) cargo plane caught in a gust of wind crashed and burst into flames as it landed at Japan's Narita airport on Monday, killing the two crew and closing the main runway at the busy gateway to Tokyo. Airlines diverted flights to other airports as the longest runway of two was closed. "We have information that strong winds caused the plane to divert from the runway," a Narita Airport spokeswoman said, adding the plane had been on a FedEx cargo flight from Guangzhou, China. The FedEx plane landed hard, tipped onto its left wing and burst into flames, video of the crash on public broadcaster NHK showed. A bright orange fireball and black billowing smoke engulfed the plane as it flipped and skidded off the runway. Firefighters sprayed foam onto the broken remains of the plane with its wheels in the air. A hospital official said the two crew had died. Narita airport said the plane was an MD-11, a freighter made by McDonnell Douglas, part of Boeing Co (BA.N). An airport official said it was unclear how long the main runway would be closed at Narita, the main international airport for the Japanese capital. A spokesman for Japan Airlines Corp (9205.T), Japan's main international airline, said some arriving flights had been diverted to Tokyo's Haneda airport and airports in Nagoya and Osaka. An All Nippon Airways (9202.T) spokesman said the airline stopped check-in operations at Narita for 10 international flights, including those to New York, Washington and London. FedEx officials in Japan confirmed it was their company's flight but said they were still checking other information.