{"id":11378,"date":"2024-01-03T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=11378"},"modified":"2024-01-03T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T08:49:13","slug":"runway-safety-concerns-in-focus-as-japan-probes-tokyo-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=11378","title":{"rendered":"Runway safety concerns in focus as Japan probes Tokyo crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aviation News International – One of the first tasks will be to recover black box recorders with flight data and cockpit voice recordings.<\/p>\n

Experts said the location of the accident means physical evidence, radar data and witness accounts or camera footage are likely to be readily available, easing the huge forensic task.<\/p>\n

“One obvious question is whether the coastguard plane was on the runway and if so why,” said Paul Hayes, director of aviation safety at UK-based consultancy Ascend by Cirium.<\/p>\n

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The crash is the first significant accident involving the Airbus A350, Europe’s premier twin-engined long-haul jet, in service since 2015.<\/p>\n

And according to preliminary 2023 data, the collision of the Coast Guard plane with a two-year-old jetliner three times its length follows one of the safest years in aviation.<\/p>\n

But it also comes after a U.S.-based safety group warned last month about the risk of runway collisions or “incursions”.<\/p>\n

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The Flight Safety Foundation called for global action to prevent a new uptick in runway incursions as skies become more congested.<\/p>\n

“Despite efforts over the years to prevent incursions, they still happen,” CEO Hassan Shahidi said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The risk of runway incursions is a global concern, and the potential consequences of an incursion are severe.”<\/p>\n

Although ground collisions involving injury or damage have become rare, their potential for loss of life is among the highest of any category and near-misses are more common.<\/p>\n

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