Two passenger planes have minor collision at Japanese airport
Two passenger planes were involved in a minor collision Tuesday at Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport in northern Japan, with no injuries, local authorities said.
The two planes, from Korean Air and Cathay Pacific airlines, came into contact while both were on the ground at around 5:30 p.m. local time, according to the airport’s operating company, which is investigating the details of what happened.
The incident, which took place in conditions of low visibility due to snowfall in the area, did not cause any injuries to passengers and did not require intervention by the fire department, according to state broadcaster NHK.
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The event comes after a Japan Airlines (JAL) commercial airliner struck a Coast Guard aircraft during landing on January 2 that was mistakenly entering the runway for takeoff after an apparent misunderstanding over controllers’ instructions.
Five of the six crew members of the military plane died and the JAL plane was consumed by flames, with no casualties, as the 379 people on board, including passengers and crew, were able to be evacuated in time.
The accident prompted Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to revise its air traffic control protocol with renewed safety measures to avoid similar accidents.
With information from EFE
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