80 kids enjoy tour of jumbo jet at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - About 80 youngsters from two care homes tour a jumbo jet and enjoy the view from Narita airport's observation deck on Oct. 11 as part of a ''Fantasy Flight'' charity event sponsored by United Airlines (UA). The children were excited to see the inside of the Boeing 747's cockpit.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000002906

Registered date
1999/10/11 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
1723 × 1231 pixel

Resolution
72 dpi

Deployment size
158.14(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Children drag jumbo jet at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - About 170 children take part in dragging a 160-ton Boeing 747-400F cargo plane at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Sept. 22, 2009, in commemoration of Sky Day on Sept. 20. The children, joined later by their parents, managed to slowly move the plane. (Kyodo)

United Airlines-Flight826-turbulence-5

NARITA, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo A United Airlines jumbo jet with 393 people aboard hit a massive air turbulence over the Pacific late Sunday, leaving one person dead and more than 60 people injured, some of them seriously. The accident took place over the northern Pacific about two hours after the U.S. airliner took off from the New Tokyo International Airport at Narita at 9:05 p.m. The Boeing 747, flight 826 bound for Honolulu with 374 passengers and 19 crew members aboard, flew back safely to Narita. The United pilot radioed air traffic controllers at Narita after accident, and ambulances and fire engines were on standby as the aircraft touched down at the airport at 2:25 a.m. Monday One Japanese female passenger, Konomi Kataura, 32, was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital. The injured passengers and crew members were rushed to local hospitals in Narita and nearby cities.