Since there is a risk of snow accumulating in Tokyo from the 10th to the 11th, preparations are underway at Haneda Airport to minimize the impact on operations, such as inspecting special vehicles that melt the snow on airplanes. increase.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, it is expected that it will snow in a wide area from the 10th to the 11th in the Kanto region, and there is a possibility that snow will accumulate in the 23 wards of Tokyo.
In response to this, on the morning of the 9th, at Haneda Airport, inspection work was carried out on vehicles that sprayed a special liquid to melt the snow on the wings of airplanes.
Workers lit the boiler to heat the liquid and checked whether the gondola in front of the vehicle would extend to the top and whether the liquid would come out of the nozzle.
All Nippon Airways has 32 of these vehicles on standby and is preparing to minimize its impact on operations.
Mr. Shigeta Kobayashi of ANA Motor Service said, "I want to work safely so that the airplane can operate safely."