Originally Posted by
Tetsuo
They might have been taxiing for so long. The hangar for the coast guard is on the other end of the airport. As a matter of fact, it's sister Dash 8 (JA723A) is parked very close to the hangar I marked on the NW side of the airport on the google maps satelite view.
The time taken will be more a function of the place being busy, not the distance
In an equivalent size other landscape someone could walk that far in that time
And the separately posted quoted assumption by AV Herald about something to do with runway 05 really doesn't make much sense when you see
it's much nearer to that base, so no need to tour most of the airport en route. Edit: see correction below