2009-07-13

Korean Air jet scrapes tail on landing at Tokyo

TOKYO : A Korean Air jet carrying 387 people scraped its tail on landing at Tokyo's Narita airport in high winds on Monday, causing the closure of the main runway for more than an hour, airport officials said.

No one was injured in the incident involving the Boeing 777-300, which arrived from Incheon International Airport, but the main runway at Narita was shut for 78 minutes for checks, the transport ministry said.

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