It has emerged that a Japan Airlines flight suffered tyre damage on landing during a routine flight on November 30th.
Information has been released pertinent to the incident at hand.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
Japan Airlines Flight JL647 Tokyo to Kagoshima…
Japan Airlines flight JL647, which suffered the burst tyres on landing, is a routine scheduled flight between Tokyo Haneda & Kagoshima.
Furthermore, the aircraft involved in the incident was JA336J.
As per data from Planespotters.net, JA336J is a 13.9 year old Boeing 737-800 that was delivered to the airline in February 2011 under the Express subsidiary.
Of the 737-800 variant, Japan Airlines has 42 of them in their fleet.
Moreover, of that 42, all but one are in active service, with an average fleet age of 14.9 years.
JL647 departed Tokyo Haneda at 1157 local time on November 30th and tracked to Kagoshima.
As per The Aviation Herald, it is understood that one of the right hand main tyres burst when it landed into it’s destination at 1405 local time.
This was confirmed by Japan’s Ministry of Transport about the extent of the damage, which was a puncture.
Aircraft Grounded Overnight…
Data from RadarBox highlights that the Japan Airlines aircraft involved in the tyre damage on November 30th was grounded overnight.
The aircraft returned to commercial service following a tyre change on December 1st.
Since then, it has operated flights to the likes of:
- Tokyo
- Ube
- Oita
As soon as we have more information pertinent to this incident, then we will update you accordingly.
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