ANA plane enters runway at Osaka airport without permission

Saturday 21st March, 06:27 AM JST

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TokyoGas at 10:53 AM JST - 21st March

Scary!
jocelasi at 11:45 AM JST - 21st March

Ew... terrible.
Sarge at 12:40 PM JST - 21st March

I'm beginning to think ANA isn't as good an airline as I thought.
martyman at 12:58 PM JST - 21st March

It is too funny to read stories like this, hopefully protesters will hang out in front of the airport. They should find some reason to complain about the dangers of having an airport near populated areas.
kiwiboy at 01:43 PM JST - 21st March

I don't think this story is news worthy at all. There is no reason that such an incident even needed to be made public. No doubt the pilots will be reprimanded, and the inquiry carried out. However the inquiry wont come up with much as this is simply a mistake by the pilots that had either had a moment of carelessness, or overhead a permission for another aircraft and took it as their own. (More likely the former). It doesn't represent a trend, or a problem with procedure/pilot training, it was simply a mistake. Mistakes can't be overlooked because there was the possibility of a disaster, but I don't think it warrants such public attention. Also, was it just me or did the whole article sound a bit weird in the way it was written? "there was danger of a serious accident" doesn't sound very natural to me, though I've a lot worse elsewhere.
Kokubuspider at 01:51 PM JST - 21st March

Kiwiboy - what? Mistakes where hundreds could die, its not like forgetting to buy milk at the conbeni...
martyman at 02:19 PM JST - 21st March

Kiwiboy, the FAA will be involved and the pilots will be reprimanded for their mistake. It is just the story being centered in Japan where news is news, no matter if it is high profile or trivial as a cat stuck in a tree.
JeffLee at 05:00 PM JST - 21st March

...the controller ordered the JEX pilot to overshoot the runway.

Wow, that IS scary. The story is underwritten. Should be, "A JEX airliner was forced to fly over an ANA airliner while landing, when the ANA plane taxiied onto its runway.

Kiwiboy, take note. Lots of Japanese news stories are written to underplay the danger, violence of a situation.
JohnBecker at 01:00 AM JST - 22nd March

Runway incursions are never a good thing, and a lot of energy and effort has been spent all around the world to prevent them. This incident will be taken very seriously and investigated thoroughly.

Bad choice of words in the translation - to overshoot a runway is to land and not stop, to run off the end. What actually happened is that the JEX flight inbound was instructed to abort his approach. It was probably then ordered to execute a "missed approach" procedure, a published set of maneuvers to be taken when an instrument approach is aborted.

The response to the incursion would have been pretty routine; the incursion itself was anything but.
KnowBetter at 07:17 AM JST - 23rd March

First off, the FAA will NOT be involved. Who do you people think you are assuming that the U.S. is GOD here and has the right to impose the FAA on this trival new story? ITM has two parralel runways and this story is a non-story because this so called "entry on to the runway" was a crossing of one of those runways. Here's the interesting part though, that MD81 would not land on the shorter infield runway that the ANA 777 crossed so this whole story is nothing more than hot air.

Also, ATC would never tell an A/C to 'overshoot' a runway. That's like saying "oh we know there's something in your way so fly over it and then land on the last bit of runway and go off the end of it". Sounds stupid, ne?
martyman at 10:39 PM JST - 24th March

KNowbetter, cool, the FAA will not get involved and the japanese pilots flying the 777 will go on their merry way. Thank goodness it is a domestic flight and not an international flight to the US.