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JAL's plane landed on a closed runway

Tokyo, Japan - Haneda Airport's air traffic controllers made a gross error and were ordered to attend a new training course

A Japan Airline aircraft carrying 51 persons aboard, Friday night around 9:30pm local hour, landed on the unique closed runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (which has 3 runways), because of the wrong instructions supplied by an air traffic controller: fortunately the accident caused neither victims nor damages. The air traffic controller explained he had forgotten that the runway was closed: but also t...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 119677
Rome, Italy, 05/02/2005 14:28
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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