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Radar Failure Disrupts Flight Schedules in Japan, Kyodo Says
By Tak Kumakura
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Flight schedules in Japan were disrupted Monday afternoon because radar systems nationwide failed to indicate flight numbers and altitudes of aircraft for about an hour and 45 minutes through 6:13 p.m., Kyodo News Service said.
A total of 161 flights departing Haneda, Narita, Shin- Chitose, Chubu, Osaka, Kansai, Fukuoka and Naha airports were delayed for up to two hours, Kyodo said, citing officials of the control center and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. No flights were canceled.
The air traffic control center, in Tokorozawa, north of Tokyo, experienced system failures in 2003 and 2004, Kyodo said.
The flight disruptions came as transport ministry investigators reviewed a Feb. 16 incident in which a Japan Airlines jet with 446 passengers and crew aboard was ordered to abort an unauthorized takeoff at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido as another plane was still on the runway, Kyodo said. The airline said the plane's pilot misunderstood an air traffic controller's instruction, the report said.
By Tak Kumakura
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Flight schedules in Japan were disrupted Monday afternoon because radar systems nationwide failed to indicate flight numbers and altitudes of aircraft for about an hour and 45 minutes through 6:13 p.m., Kyodo News Service said.
A total of 161 flights departing Haneda, Narita, Shin- Chitose, Chubu, Osaka, Kansai, Fukuoka and Naha airports were delayed for up to two hours, Kyodo said, citing officials of the control center and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. No flights were canceled.
The air traffic control center, in Tokorozawa, north of Tokyo, experienced system failures in 2003 and 2004, Kyodo said.
The flight disruptions came as transport ministry investigators reviewed a Feb. 16 incident in which a Japan Airlines jet with 446 passengers and crew aboard was ordered to abort an unauthorized takeoff at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido as another plane was still on the runway, Kyodo said. The airline said the plane's pilot misunderstood an air traffic controller's instruction, the report said.
