An All Nippon Airways airplane carrying 165 passengers and crew landed on the wrong runway at Osaka's Itami Airport on Friday, prompting another plane to stop to avoid a possible collision.
No one was injured in the incident.
ANA Flight 448 from Matsuyama landed on Runway A at 5:45 p.m., despite receiving permission from air traffic control to land on Runway B, just as a Japan Airlines flight bound for Miyazaki carrying 142 passengers and crew was about to enter the same runway.
The pilot of JAL Flight 2441 stopped the MD-87 before reaching the 1,800-meter Runway A after spotting the incoming ANA Airbus A320, even though he had been directed by the controller to move onto Runway A and standby for takeoff.
The ANA pilot contacted air traffic control about three minutes before landing, reporting that he would be landing on Runway B, a 3,000-meter runway equipped with a landing guidance system.
The controller then gave him permission to land on Runway B.
The pilot apparently misheard the controller's instructions, and wrongly recited back that the plane would land on Runway A, which runs parallel to Runway B.
The controller did not pick up on the mistake and therefore did not correct it, resulting in the ANA plane making an unauthorized landing on Runway A.
The JAL pilot was quoted as saying, "If our plane had moved onto the runway, we might have crashed into each other."
The Construction and Transport Ministry has decided to send air traffic controllers--who are in charge of investigations--to Itami Airport next week to conduct a special inquiry and hearing with the airport officials involved in the incident.
Additionally, Construction and Transport Minister Tetsuzo Fuyushiba directed the Civil Aviation Bureau to take measures to prevent such incidents in the future.
In a similar incident that occurred last month at Itami Airport, a JAL plane crossed a runway without permission from the controller.
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