The plane was turned away from landing at Fukuoka International Airport as it missed the 10pm cut-off time. Read more at straitstimes.com.
It was meant to be a two-hour domestic flight for 335 passengers on a Japan Airlines plane.
However, some news reports such as BBC and Bloomberg said the plane was delayed for 90 minutes due to a plane switch.The plane was minutes away from landing at Fukuoka International Airport when it was turned away for a missing the airport’s 10pm cut-off time. On that morning, strong winds at Haneda International Airport resulted in other flights being delayed. Flight data also showed that other flights were allowed to land past the cut-off time, said the BBC.Planes might be allowed to land after 10pm when delay was unavoidable, such as bad weather or congestion on airport runaways, said the officials. However, the officials did not regard JL331’s flight delay as “unavoidable”, reported Ashai Shimbun.
The flight initially attempted to land at an airport in Kitakyushu, a city close to Fukuoka. However, the aircraft was not allowed to do so, as there were no buses to ferry the passengers to a hotel.Jetstar flight makes emergency landing in Japan after bomb threat
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