Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Photo taken at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 10, 2023, shows a damaged winglet on a Thai Airways plane after it came into contact with an aircraft operated by Taiwan's Eva Airways on a taxiway earlier in the day. No injuries were reported following the incident that led to the temporary closure of one of the airport's four runways.

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Photo taken at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 10, 2023, shows a damaged winglet on a Thai Airways plane after it came into contact with an aircraft operated by Taiwan's Eva Airways on a taxiway earlier in the day. No injuries were reported following the incident that led to the temporary closure of one of the airport's four runways.

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Photo taken at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 10, 2023, shows a damaged winglet on a Thai Airways plane after it came into contact with an aircraft operated by Taiwan's Eva Airways on a taxiway earlier in the day. No injuries were reported following the incident that led to the temporary closure of one of the airport's four runways.

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Photo taken at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 10, 2023, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Thai Airways plane (front, L) and another aircraft (front, R) belonging to Taiwan's Eva Airways after they came into contact on the airport's taxiway earlier in the day. The incident led to the temporary closure of one of its four runways, with no injuries reported.

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Photo taken at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 10, 2023, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Thai Airways plane (L) and another aircraft belonging to Taiwan's Eva Airways after they came into contact on the airport's taxiway earlier in the day. The incident led to the temporary closure of one of its four runways, with no injuries reported.

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Photo taken at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 10, 2023, shows a Thai Airways plane after it came into contact with another aircraft belonging to Taiwan's Eva Airways on the airport's taxiway earlier in the day. The incident led to the temporary closure of one of its four runways, with no injuries reported.

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Plane contact at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Photo taken at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 10, 2023, shows a Thai Airways plane after it came into contact with another aircraft belonging to Taiwan's Eva Airways on the airport's taxiway earlier in the day. The incident led to the temporary closure of one of its four runways, with no injuries reported.

Japan begins construction of new SDF base for U.S. fighter drills

Japan started construction work Thursday for a Self-Defense Forces base on an uninhabited island in a southwestern prefecture, the Defense Ministry said, under a plan to relocate military drills using U.S. carrier-borne fighter jets. In the work expected to last four years on Mage Island in Kagoshima, the ministry will first build runways and ammunition storage facilities, according to an environmental assessment report made public earlier in the day. The project will pave the way for the relocation of the practice site for U.S. fighter jets from Iwoto Island in the Pacific, about 1,250 kilometers south of Tokyo, following the construction work on the 8 square km island.

Sendai airport restores predisaster domestic flights

Sendai airport restores predisaster domestic flights

SENDAI, Japan - The first (top) of the resumed regular domestic flights takes off from Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 25, 2011. Domestic flights fully resumed that day at Sendai airport, with four airlines running all 41 regular services for the first time since the runways and terminal were swamped by the tsunami following the March earthquake.

Hawaiian Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Tokyo

Hawaiian Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Tokyo

Photo taken July 18, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Honolulu-bound Hawaiian Airlines plane, which returned to Tokyo's Haneda airport due to a mechanical failure. One of the four runways at Japan's busiest air hub was closed for around nine hours after its emergency landing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hawaiian Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Tokyo

Hawaiian Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Tokyo

Photo taken July 18, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Honolulu-bound Hawaiian Airlines plane, which returned to Tokyo's Haneda airport due to a mechanical failure. One of the four runways at Japan's busiest air hub was closed for around nine hours after its emergency landing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sendai airport restores predisaster domestic flights

Sendai airport restores predisaster domestic flights

SENDAI, Japan - The first (top) of the resumed regular domestic flights takes off from Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 25, 2011. Domestic flights fully resumed that day at Sendai airport, with four airlines running all 41 regular services for the first time since the runways and terminal were swamped by the tsunami following the March earthquake. (Kyodo)