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Heavy Snow; UA881 Is Approaching To Yokota

smolt From Japan, joined Nov 1999, 269 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1501 times:

Today so many flights to Tokyo have been prevented by heavy snow. Now I'm observing UA881 to Narita is diverting to Yokota Air Base. I am so curious how Japanese passengers feel to land to USAF airbase.

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wjcandee From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 4553 posts, RR: 17
Reply 1, posted (4 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1476 times:

Share with us why they would care?

smolt From Japan, joined Nov 1999, 269 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (4 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1445 times:

He seems to have landed to Yokota safely. I can imagine cockpit crews are so tired that they had held for a long time above the ocean before he decided to divert. I wonder the pilot might be familiar with Yokota airbase because he was ex USAF pilot?

smolt From Japan, joined Nov 1999, 269 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (4 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1372 times:

wjcandee, the most probable that Narita can't handle so many ground traffic under very poor visibility and this has forced many flights to hold in the air for long time. ( CAT2? 3?) In addition wind condition is not so good. One flight had two miss approaches.
Narita and Haneda is open officially but nearly closed.

wjcandee From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 4553 posts, RR: 17
Reply 4, posted (4 months 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 1103 times:

Glad everyone landed safely.

airportugal310 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3063 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (4 months 1 week 15 hours ago) and read 1023 times:

Looks like most flights are arriving at Haneda with "little" trouble. Some broken cloudy layers at lower altitudes but its the wind that's up there a little bit.

Enjoy the snow!

Rock Lobstah!

PHX787 From Japan, joined Mar 2012, 4956 posts, RR: 14
Reply 6, posted (4 months 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 771 times:

Are aircraft allowed to land there? IIRC here in the states landing at an AFB is reserved for dire straights emergencies only.

頑張ろう日本!

airportugal310 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3063 posts, RR: 2
Reply 7, posted (4 months 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 739 times:

Quoting PHX787 (Reply 6):

Yes. There are agreements that need to be signed ahead of time. I'm in process of reviewing one now...

It's surprisingly less complicated than it seems.

But as you mention, it is last case scenario typically. No emergency needed, however.

Rock Lobstah!

LAXintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 22028 posts, RR: 51
Reply 8, posted (4 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 699 times:

Using OKO is not that big an issues especially for US carriers.

As some might know many US carriers request and receive blanket approvals for use of Air Force and Navy/Marine bases and have the authorizations as part of their ops-specs.

For OKO specifically, its almost a normal occasion for someone to drop in as part of a diversion when things go south in the Tokyo metro area.

From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California

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