Following on from yesterday's horrible crash in Japan, new details have emerged about the collision of Japan Airlines’ Airbus A350 and a Japanese Coast Guard Dash 8 aircraft on the 2nd of January.
The transcripts reveal that the air traffic control asked the Dash 8 to stop short of the active runway while the A350 landed. Reports about warning lights at the holding point being out of order have also added another layer to the incident.
Transcripts of the communication between the ATC and the two aircraft involved in the 2nd of January incident at Tokyo Haneda airport reveal that Japan Airlines’ A350 was cleared to land while the Coast Guard Dash 8 was asked to hold short of the runway.
JAL was operating flight JL516 from Sapporo to Tokyo Haneda and was cleared to land on runway 34R. The Dash 8, however, was asked to “taxi to holding point C5,” an instruction which the pilots of the propellor aircraft acknowledged. Based on the transcripts, the communication seems straightforward, but only an official report will tell if there were any other gaps that may have led the Dash 8 to enter the active runway by mistake.
This also contradicts the statement given by the captain of the Coast Guard plane earlier, who said during the investigation that they were cleared to enter the runway. More details will likely emerge in the coming days as the investigation into the incident continues.
The Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) and the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA) of France are looking into the cause of the incident. Airbus is also dispatching a team of specialists to help with the investigation.
Meanwhile, another piece of information has surfaced about the possibility that the red lights that warn taxiing aircraft to stop short of runway 34R were out of order at the time of the incident. A report by the BBC mentioned it, and Pete Muntean, a CNN correspondent, tweeted about the NOTAM related to the lights
No comments:
Post a Comment