Bushfiva
1st May 2007, 04:54
At 11:20am on 1st May I saw a twin-engined passenger jet flying approximately NNE -SSW over central Tokyo. It passed the landward side of Tokyo Tower, either between there and Roppongi Hills or over Roppongi Hills.
It was low in the sense it was the quiet-but-close engines that made me look up, not in the sense that I thought it was going to bump into anything. For the 10 seconds I could see it, it was straight and level so didn't look as though it was going into Haneda or Yokota. If it were on a parallel path out over Tokyo Bay, it would have been the right height for Haneda.
Does anyone have any idea about the flight? I ask because I know overflights of Tokyo City are not allowed, and a few years back when an airliner did a late turn to Haneda, the city government got all bitter and twisted about it.
Just to repeat, this isn't SLF thinking there was a plane in trouble, it simply seems possible it was in the wrong place.
It was low in the sense it was the quiet-but-close engines that made me look up, not in the sense that I thought it was going to bump into anything. For the 10 seconds I could see it, it was straight and level so didn't look as though it was going into Haneda or Yokota. If it were on a parallel path out over Tokyo Bay, it would have been the right height for Haneda.
Does anyone have any idea about the flight? I ask because I know overflights of Tokyo City are not allowed, and a few years back when an airliner did a late turn to Haneda, the city government got all bitter and twisted about it.
Just to repeat, this isn't SLF thinking there was a plane in trouble, it simply seems possible it was in the wrong place.