ANA unit urged to devise steps following belly-up incident

ANA unit urged to devise steps following belly-up incident

TOKYO, Japan - Futoshi Osada (far L), director general of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Civil Aviation Bureau, gives a written directive to Koichi Uchizono (2nd from L), president of Air Nippon Co., a unit of All Nippon Airways Co., at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. The ministry ordered the company to take steps to prevent a recurrence of an in-flight operational error that caused one of its aircraft to briefly fly almost belly up when traveling from Okinawa to Tokyo in September.

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