Four stray dogs have been causing major chaos at Haneda Airport since Wednesday after they were seen wandering around the runways, causing a delay in 18 flights altogether, before some of them were eventually captured.
The presumably stray dogs were first noticed on Wednesday, when an arriving plane was forced to abort its first landing and try again, Fuji TV reported. The four dogswere wandering around the runway and resting on the grass.
One of the four was captured on Wednesday, two at around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday and one is still on the loose, Haneda Airport officials confirmed. The three captured dogs were sent to an animal care center.
A total of 18 flights have been delayed as a result of the quartet’s presence, with one arriving flight being redirected to Sendai Airport on Thursday.
Airport officials are currently trying to capture the last "trespasser," as well as investigate how they got onto the runway in the first place.
© Japan Today
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A.N. Other
Maybe they were newshounds.
Christopher Glen
Who let the dogs out???
Thunderbird
Zootopia
SenseNotSoCommon
Ueno Zoo have a big net they can borrow...
seadog538
Every dog has it's day!
Kobe White Bar Owner
Is animal care center a euphemism?
tmarie
Probably will be gassed next week. A shame as this could be a talking point with regards to the thousands of dumped and feral dogs in the country.
Sapporodenki
Might have been Flight chasers. Any one knowing whether they had cameras?
Kuribo1
sad the answer will be death for the dogs.
Scrote
If the dogs are chipped their owners should be sued for any costs incurred.
Manuel D. Valencia III
I'm sure the delays were dog on stressful for the airlines and the passengers.
Sabrage
Korean airports never have this problem.
CrucialS
Hahaha! True story, I lived in Seoul for a short time and learned from experience that dog meat was actually pretty good.
Bernd Laurent
doggone dogs!
trinklets2
Maybe, just maybe somebody did it intentionally. One stray dog might be understandably loiter around. 4 dogs? Very suspicious!
No Ginger
Haneda has gone to the dogs
GW
Stray dogs are pretty rare they don't last long, enough of the stupid jokes, catch the dogs & find out how they ended up on airport grounds!
kurisupisu
Stray dogs are usually the result of human negligence.....