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KE701 came in and scratched the base of its engine at while landing at Narita. Airport closed for 20min to inspect the runway, no problems found, aircraft cleared to depart back to Seoul
Good on the NRT airport authorities to check on FODs. About 6 or 7 years ago, a KAL B744 pranged the engine on landing and the skipper kept quiet about it after the walkaround for the return flight hoping that it will be foisted onto the next unfortunate guy! Unfortunately this piece of work was an expat!
Gee, that's bordering on the criminal! Remember AF Concorde came to grief after tire damaged by FOD fallen from a DC-10. If an engine pod contacted the runway surface, God knows what could have been scraped off or fallen off only to become a killer hazard for others. Can believe such behaviour! Maybe the punishment culture led to this.