Narita Airport incident ?
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Narita Airport incident ?
past june 17th two widebodies from KLM and Asiana Airlineshave been involved in a runway incident at Narita. The KLM coming from EHAM was landing while the Asiana aircraft was just rolling for take off destination Incheon. It's just an internet false rumour ? could anybody confirm this japanesse incident?
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There was something on Airwise News about two aircraft heading towards each other on the same taxiway - no impact though. Apparently one runway was closed for an hour while they sorted it out. I did consider posting here at the time to ask why they needed to close a runway, but thought I'd probably get flamed for my ignorance.
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According to the Japanese news agency Kyodo, the 2 aircraft met on a 30 meter wide taxiway. Not wide enough, so the taxiway was closed and a tractor eventually pushed back the Airbus. After which the taxiway was re-opened.
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That almost happened to me once in Nashville, TN. It was about midnight and the ground controller told me to taxi to the runway and I should take the connector. The connector is a one way taxiway that is only about 25ft wide. Just as I start down the connector an American MD80 shows up at the opposite end. Luckily I was still able to do a 180, we would have both been stuck if I had been 10 feet further on to the connector. The ground controller lady seemed completely oblivious to the blunder that she almost caused.
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BBB- happened to me at Birmingham. Head to head with 747. My fault turned off onto the wrong taxi way BUT my embarrassment was absolute as I was driving a Cessna 172. I should love to know who was driving the Boeing as he waved out of the flightdeck window and said over the ground RT "Will you back up or shall I?"
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