Word: haneda
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...sports association, has staged such an event in the last eight years. When the second game (which the A's took 5-1) was over at 9:51 p.m., the two teams, barely recovered from jet lag from the trip over, hopped a bus for nearby Haneda International Airport and a pair of all-night 11-hour flights across the Pacific...
...nearly 30 seats from the A320's standard 170-seat configuration) add to the comfort?and when not in use, the middle seat in each row converts into a table. At the moment, the fledgling airline only makes the hour-and-a-half-long trip to Tokyo's domestic Haneda Airport from its home base in the western port city of Kitakyushu, but look out in future for routes to Shanghai and Seoul...
...Ochiai was surprised to see Mount Fuji out a left window. "I thought the plane was heading back to Haneda," she said. Actually, radar operators saw the aircraft make a wide circle at this point, fully 360°, near Japan's sacred mountain, which was far north of the planned course to Osaka...
...sticking to a steady course, and at 6:46 p.m., the dire message came again from the cockpit: "Uncontrol." Replied Tokyo: "Do you want to communicate with Haneda?" The answer, now in a loud voice: "Yes, please!" The craft was tracked at 11,700 ft. and had slowed to 299 m.p.h. One minute later, Flight 123 asked for the heading into Haneda, adding, "Uncontrollable." Tokyo's reply: "Maintain magnetic 90 degrees. Can you control?" The by now familiar answer: "Uncontrollable." The craft was down to 9,850 ft. By 6:49 p.m., the 747 had dropped...
...minute later, the plane was advised, "Haneda and Yokota both ready. You can start landing procedures any time." Yokota, a U.S. air base, had already been told by Tokyo air-traffic control, as had Haneda, to be prepared for an emergency landing. But there was no reply from Flight...