Lights designed to prevent runway incursions were out of service when a Japan Coast Guard plane collided with an arriving Japan Airlines Co. passenger jet at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2.

  • sansrealname@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    But ministry officials said the lights would not have been turned on even if they had been in service because there was sufficient visibility that day.

    Right, because there’s already runway holding position markings that you do not cross without clearance - every pilot from private on up knows about these. The mentioned lights are for low visibility situations which this was not.