In response to a series of incidents at airports across the country, including passenger planes colliding with each other and erroneously veering off taxiways, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Saito emphasized his intention to take necessary measures to prevent recurrence.
At domestic airports,
on January 16th, international passenger planes collided with each other on the tarmac of New Chitose Airport, resulting in damage to both aircraft, and on January
10th and 17th, , a passenger plane that landed at Fukuoka Airport accidentally veered off the taxiway and was temporarily stranded.
Regarding this, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Saito said at a press conference after the Cabinet meeting on the 19th, ``We take seriously the fact that incidents like this have occurred consecutively. I'm going.''
In addition, since the incident at New Chitose Airport occurred while a worker responsible for guiding a passenger plane was moving the aircraft using a vehicle, we are working through airport managers across the country to discuss basic operations during ground operations. This means that they requested thorough implementation of the following.
In addition, Minister Saito called on airline companies to be careful in order to prevent accidents caused by aircraft erroneously veering off the taxiway, and also indicated that there will be additional no-trespassing signs placed at points where aircraft have erroneously entered.