ANA B738 at Okinawa on Jun 3rd 2015, rejected takeoff on ATC instruction due to runway incursion

Last Update: April 27, 2017 / 14:08:34 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 3, 2015

Classification
Incident

Cause
Rejected takeoff

Airline
ANA All Nippon Airways

Flight number
NH-1694

Departure
Okinawa, Japan

Destination
Sapporo, Japan

Aircraft Registration
JA80AN

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

An ANA All Nippon Airways Boeing 737-800, registration JA80AN performing flight NH-1694 from Okinawa to Sapporo (Japan) with 83 people on board, was accelerating for takeoff from Okinawa's runway 18 when an air defense helicopter crew, who had mistaken the takeoff clearance to NH-1694 for themselves, departed and entered the protected range of the runway prompting the tower controller to instruct the Boeing 737-800 to stop. The crew rejected takeoff at high speed and stopped on the runway about 1650 meters down the runway (short of the first high speed turn off). Tower at the same time instructed the next aircraft on short final to go around, the aircraft however continued landing touching down on the occupied runway, see Incident: Japan TransOcean B734 at Okinawa on Jun 3rd 2015, continued landing onto occupied runway despite instruction to go around.

Japan's Transportation Safety Board (JTSB) rated the runway incursion as well as the continuation of landing as a serious incident each and opened an investigation dispatching three investigators on site.

On Apr 27th 2017 Japan's TSB released their final report, see the coverage included in the second runway incursion at Incident: Japan TransOcean B734 at Okinawa on Jun 3rd 2015, continued landing onto occupied runway despite instruction to go around.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 3, 2015

Classification
Incident

Cause
Rejected takeoff

Airline
ANA All Nippon Airways

Flight number
NH-1694

Departure
Okinawa, Japan

Destination
Sapporo, Japan

Aircraft Registration
JA80AN

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

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