FedEx plane makes emergency landing in Japan
Tokyo’s Narita airport briefly closed its main runway on 3 April after a FedEx plane – the same model as a jet that crashed there in March – made an emergency landing.
Tokyo’s Narita airport briefly closed its main runway on 3 April after a FedEx plane – the same model as a jet that crashed there in March – made an emergency landing.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 plane had left for South Korea’s Incheon airport but returned to Narita after its pilot felt unusual vibrations near the aircraft’s front wheel, an airport official said.
“The airport received communication from the pilot, who asked for a checkup of the aircraft,” said the official.
The emergency landing closed the main 4,000-metre Runway A for only a few minutes, and the plane took off for Incheon a few hours later, the official said. No one was injured.
In March, a FedEx cargo plane en route from China crashed in high winds and exploded in a ball of flames on touchdown at Narita, killing both pilots.
It was the first-ever fatal accident at Japan’s biggest international airport, and the country’s first since 1996, when three people died in a Garuda Indonesia accident at Fukuoka airport.
