{"id":69396,"date":"2026-08-05T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/69396\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:41:09","slug":"narrow-escape-how-ana-flight-from-shanghai-avoided-a-collision-at-tokyo-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/69396\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow escape: how ANA flight from Shanghai avoided a collision at Tokyo airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An All Nippon Airways passenger jet took evasive action after coming close to a government inspection aircraft near Tokyo\u2019s Haneda airport on Tuesday, in the latest aviation safety incident at the airport since a deadly runway collision in 2024.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to Japanese media reports, ANA flight NH968 from Shanghai was approaching the airport at around 6am on Tuesday when its traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) was activated, warning of a potential collision risk with another aircraft.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Boeing 767, with 197 passengers and crew, was descending towards runway C when the pilots followed the TCAS instructions and climbed to avoid the other aircraft, the reports said, citing Japan\u2019s transport ministry and the airline.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The aircraft landed safely at around 6.10am and no passengers or crew members were injured.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The other aircraft was a Civil Aviation Bureau-operated flight inspection aircraft, known as Dr White, which took off from runway D and was conducting checks on navigation and airport facilities, Japanese media said. The bureau is a division of the transport ministry.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">ANA said that NH968 landed \u201csafely without issue, under normal conditions\u201d and there were no injuries to the 187 passengers or 10 crew members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An All Nippon Airways passenger jet took evasive action after coming close to a government inspection aircraft near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4151,6366,17855,7155,44789,44788,6874,8,2220,17,6219,44790,52,36336,3283],"class_list":["post-69396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-all-nippon-airways","tag-ana","tag-boeing","tag-civil-aviation-bureau","tag-dr-white","tag-flightradar","tag-haneda-airport","tag-japan","tag-japan-airlines","tag-japanese","tag-shanghai","tag-tcas","tag-tokyo","tag-us-army","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}