On the afternoon of 19th, the departing aircraft and the arrival aircraft waiting at the wrong place at Naha airport in accordance with the instructions of the controller were in a form to face each other, and there was a problem that it could not move.
As a result of this trouble other aircraft could not move, together with 27 a maximum of about 1 hour delay occurred.
At 2:30 p.m. on the afternoon of 19th, both the passenger aircraft of China Eastern Airlines, which had been waiting for departure on the taxiway by instructions from the air traffic controller at Naha Airport, and the ANA, which arrived from Sendai Airport and was about to move to the parking lot It became a shape that it faced, and it became a state where it can not move.
For this reason, the towing vehicle has moved out and moved the ANA plane to another place.
With this trouble, other aircraft could not move, and 27 a maximum of about 1 hour delay came out to a total of 27 aircraft.
According to the Osaka Aviation Bureau Nara airport office of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Osaka Airlines, Mr. Tomoo Ishimoto from the Naha Airport office said, "Because the controllers' instructions were wrong," Mr. Ishimoto said, "I am sorry for disturbing passengers and stakeholders I would like to study the backup system of the controller and try to prevent recurrence. "