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Japan: Haneda Airport Flights Disrupted by ATC System Failure 2

A malfunction in the air traffic control system operated by the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) struck Tokyo's Haneda Airport at early Tuesday morning, April 21, causing widespread flight disruptions that continued throughout the day. Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) alone had more than 200 domestic flights combined, affecting more than 31,600 passengers.

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Japan: Haneda Airport Flights Disrupted by ATC System Failure

A malfunction in the air traffic control system operated by the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) struck Tokyo's Haneda Airport at around 6:30 AM on Monday, April 21, causing widespread flight disruptions that continued throughout the day. By 6:00 PM, Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) alone had canceled 208 domestic flights combined, affecting more than 31,600 passengers.

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JAL ceremony for new employees

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani appears in a video message at a ceremony to welcome new employees of Japan Airlines group companies in a hangar at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2026.

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JAL ceremony for new employees

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani appears in a video message at a ceremony to welcome new employees of Japan Airlines group companies in a hangar at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2026.

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Japan: Snow-Covered Mount Fuji Captured From Flight

A breathtaking view of snow-covered Mount Fuji was captured from a flight traveling from Tokyo International Airport to Kumamoto Airport on February 13, 2026. According to the filmer, an in-flight announcement indicated the aircraft was cruising at an altitude of approximately 28,000 feet at the time the footage was recorded.

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Self-driving cargo tug testing begins at Haneda airport

A Japan Airlines cargo tug operates autonomously at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2025. JAL, together with All Nippon Airways, began self-driving tests of the vehicles the same day amid a chronic manpower shortage.

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Self-driving cargo tug testing begins at Haneda airport

A Japan Airlines cargo tug operates autonomously at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2025. JAL, together with All Nippon Airways, began self-driving tests of the vehicles the same day amid a chronic manpower shortage.

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Self-driving cargo tug testing begins at Haneda airport

An All Nippon Airways cargo tug operates autonomously at Haneda airport in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2025. ANA, together with Japan Airlines, began self-driving tests of the vehicles the same day amid a chronic manpower shortage.

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Self-driving cargo tug testing begins at Haneda airport

Photo taken on Dec. 15, 2025, shows All Nippon Airways (L) and Japan Airlines self-driving cargo tugs at Haneda airport in Tokyo. The two airlines began self-driving tests of the vehicles the same day amid a chronic manpower shortage.

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[Breaking News]United plane after emergency landing

OSAKA, Japan, Sept. 15 Kyodo - Video shows a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane during an investigation by Japan Transport Safety Board officers at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, two days after it made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold. (Kyodo)

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 10 Kyodo - Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori apologizes at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays. (Kyodo)

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United plane after emergency landing

Japan Transport Safety Board officer Mitsuru Takahashi meets the press at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, after investigating a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane that made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold two days earlier.

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United plane after emergency landing

Japan Transport Safety Board officers enter a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane to conduct an investigation at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, two days after it made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold.

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United plane after emergency landing

Photo shows a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane during an investigation by Japan Transport Safety Board officers at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, two days after it made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold.

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United plane after emergency landing

Japan Transport Safety Board officers investigate a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, two days after it made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) speaks at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori holds a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori holds a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) speaks at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) speaks at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) speaks at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (C) apologizes at a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, after the ministry reprimanded the airline over a pilot drinking episode that caused flight delays.

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JAL adopts hydrogen-powered airport tractor

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori (far R) and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (2nd from R) pose in front of a CO2-free hydrogen-powered airport tractor during a media preview in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2025. JAL will test-use the tractor, the first of its kind in Japan, for domestic-flight planes at Tokyo's Haneda airport until December.

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JAL adopts hydrogen-powered airport tractor

Photo taken on Aug. 28, 2025, shows a CO2-free hydrogen-powered airport tractor parked in front of a Japan Airlines plane in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2025, unveiled to the media. JAL will test-use the tractor, the first of its kind in Japan, for domestic-flight planes at Tokyo's Haneda airport until December.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

A chartered Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, takes off from an airport in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were recently sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia deported to Japan

A chartered Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, prepares to take off from an airport in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were recently sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia to be deported to Japan

A bus carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, leaves a detention facility in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025, on a chartered Malaysia Airlines plane.

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Japanese scam suspects in Cambodia to be deported to Japan

A bus carrying 29 Japanese men and women suspected of involvement in a fraud scheme in Poipet, northwestern Cambodia, leaves a detention facility in Phnom Penh on Aug. 20, 2025, for deportation to Japan. About 80 officers from Japan's Aichi prefectural police were sent to Cambodia to transport the 29 Japanese, detained by local authorities in May 2025, on a chartered Malaysia Airlines plane.

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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Actor Hitomi Kuroki prays at the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jetliner crash on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew, including her classmate at the Takarazuka Revue all-female musical theater troupe.

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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Actor Hitomi Kuroki visits the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jetliner crash on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew, including her classmate at the Takarazuka Revue all-female musical theater troupe.

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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Actor Hitomi Kuroki visits the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jetliner crash on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew, including her classmate at the Takarazuka Revue all-female musical theater troupe.

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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori meets the press after attending a memorial ceremony for the victims of the 1985 JAL jetliner crash near the crash site on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew.

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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori meets the press after attending a memorial ceremony for the victims of the 1985 JAL jetliner crash near the crash site on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew.

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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori prepares to lay flowers on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the 1985 JAL jetliner crash that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew, at a cenotaph erected near the crash site on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Japan Airlines Co. President Mitsuko Tottori prays on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the 1985 JAL jetliner crash that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew, at a cenotaph erected near the crash site on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo. (Pool photo)

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JAL ceremony to welcome new employees

TOKYO, Japan, April 2 Kyodo - The Japan Airlines Co. group holds a ceremony to welcome new employees in a hangar at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2025. (Kyodo)

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JAL ceremony to welcome new employees

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani delivers a video message during a ceremony to welcome new employees of the Japan Airlines Co. group held in a hangar at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2025.

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JAL ceremony to welcome new employees

New employees of the Japan Airlines Co. group fly paper planes on which they wrote their wishes and goals during a ceremony to welcome them in a hangar held at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2025.

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JAL ceremony to welcome new employees

The Japan Airlines Co. group holds a ceremony to welcome new employees in a hangar at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2025.

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JAL ceremony to welcome new employees

The Japan Airlines Co. group holds a ceremony to welcome new employees in a hangar at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2025.

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JAL ceremony to welcome new employees

The Japan Airlines Co. group holds a ceremony to welcome new employees in a hangar at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2025.

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Special JAL plane themed on USJ's new area

Photo taken on Jan. 14, 2025, at Osaka airport straddling Osaka and Hyogo prefectures shows a specially painted Japan Airlines plane introduced the same day to mark the opening in December of Donkey Kong Country, a new area at Universal Studios Japan in the western Japan city of Osaka

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Special JAL plane themed on USJ's new area

Photo taken on Jan. 14, 2025, at Osaka airport straddling Osaka and Hyogo prefectures shows a specially painted Japan Airlines plane introduced the same day to mark the opening in December of Donkey Kong Country, a new area at Universal Studios Japan in the western Japan city of Osaka.

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JAL under cyberattack

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 26 Kyodo - A member of Japan Airlines' ground staff responds to passengers at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Dec. 26, 2024, after a cyberattack disrupted the company's systems. The attack began around 7:25 a.m. the same day, delaying at least 14 domestic flights and affecting some international flights. (Kyodo)

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JAL's system hit by cyberattack

Photo taken in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2024, shows a Japan Airlines smartphone app out of order due to a system glitch, caused by a cyberattack earlier in the day.

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JAL's system hit by cyberattack

An electronic board at Osaka airport straddling Hyogo and Osaka prefectures, western Japan, informs passengers on Dec. 26, 2024, of Japan Airlines flights disrupted by a massive system glitch, caused by a cyberattack earlier in the day.

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JAL under cyberattack

Passengers line up at a Japan Airlines check-in counter at Osaka airport, straddling Hyogo and Osaka prefectures in western Japan, on Dec. 26, 2024, after a cyberattack disrupted the company's systems. The attack began around 7:25 a.m. the same day, delaying at least 14 domestic flights and affecting some international flights.

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JAL under cyberattack

A Japan Airlines ground staff member (front, R) responds to a passenger at Osaka airport straddling Hyogo and Osaka prefectures, western Japan, on Dec. 26, 2024, after a cyberattack disrupted the company's systems. The attack began around 7:25 a.m. the same day, delaying at least 14 domestic flights and affecting some international flights

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JAL under cyberattack

A member of Japan Airlines' ground staff responds to passengers at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Dec. 26, 2024, after a cyberattack disrupted the company's systems. The attack began around 7:25 a.m. the same day, delaying at least 14 domestic flights and affecting some international flights.

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JAL under cyberattack

Photo taken Dec. 26, 2024, shows Japan Airlines aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport. A cyberattack on the company's system network that began around 7:25 a.m. the same day caused at least 14 domestic flights to be delayed, with some international flights also affected.