Runway closed at Tokyo airport after plane contact
published : 12 Jun 2023 at 09:16
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Kyodo News and Reuters
Some flights were delayed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Saturday after two planes appeared to have collided on the ground.
No injuries occurred but the incident led to the closure of one of four runways at the airport from about 11am local time.
Japanese TV showed jets from Thai Airways International and Eva Air of Taiwan on the ground. Part of the wing of the THAI plane looked to be broken, and fragments could be seen near the runway.
Thai Airways said its Bangkok-bound flight was on a taxiway preparing for takeoff when a part at the tip of the plane’s right wing hit the rear of an Eva aircraft that was also on a taxiway.
The collision damaged the wing, meaning it was unable to fly, THAI said. The Airbus A330 aircraft was carrying 250 passengers and 14 crew members.
On Saturday afternoon, THAI posted a message on its Facebook page saying that a number of passengers on the affected flight had already been transferred to other airlines at their request.
The remaining passengers have been provided with hotel accommodations, and arrangements are under way for their return flights scheduled for Sunday, THAI said.
THAI said Japan’s civil aviation authority was investigating the incident.
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Vocabulary
- affected (verb): having received an effect or influence - ถูกผลกระทบ, มีผลต่อ
- civil aviation: non-military aviation - การบินพลเรือน
- closure (noun): the shutting down of a school, factory or other business or service - การปิด
- collide: (especially of moving objects) to hit something violently - ชน,กระแทก
- collision: an accident in which a vehicle or person that is moving crashes into something - การชนประสานงา
- contact (noun): a situation in which people or things touch each other or come very close to each other - การสัมผัส
- fragment: a small piece of a large object that has broken, often into a lot of pieces - ส่วนที่แตกออกมา
- injury (noun): physical damage done to a person or a part of their body - อาการบาดเจ็บ
- runway (noun): a long narrow strip of ground with a hard surface that an aircraft takes off from and lands on - ทางขึ้นลงของเครื่องบิน
- taxiway (noun): the hard path that a plane uses as it moves to and from the runway -
- tip: the thin pointed end of something - จุดปลายสุด
- transferred: changed someone’s job or responsibilities - โยกย้ายตำแหน่ง
