Japanese Flight Forced to Turn Around After Missing Landing Deadline by 10 Minutes

If you’re a frequent flyer, you’ve likely had a plane rerouted in flight. Sometimes there’s bad weather at your destination airport, sometimes a mechanical issue forces you to make a pit stop — it’s normal enough in the world of air travel. But discovering your destination airport is closing, while you’re only minutes away, is certainly rarer.

That’s the fate that befell passengers of Japan Airlines flight JL331 this past weekend. A two-hour flight out of Haneda Airport in Tokyo saw 90 minutes of delays, which pushed its scheduled landing in Fukoka dangerously close to the airport’s 10 p.m. curfew. As the plane neared Fukoka, the pilots discovered it would barely miss the cutoff — and were forced to turn around.

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