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auxiliary power unit oil leak: smoke coming out of the tail of a boeing passenger plane in japan before takeoff

2024-09-02

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according to the japan broadcasting corporation (nhk) on september 2, citing information from okinawa naha airport, at around 6:50 p.m. local time today (september 1), an all nippon airways passenger plane (flight number nh474) that was scheduled to fly from naha airport to tokyo haneda airportwhite smoke before takeoff

witnesses at the scene said that white smoke was coming out of the tail of the boeing 777-300 aircraft for about 1 minute.

according to all nippon airways, there were 505 passengers on board the plane, no one was injured, and the passengers were not evacuated.the incident did not affect the takeoff and landing of other flights at the airport.

so what caused the accident? the airline later checked the aircraft and confirmedaircraft auxiliary power unit oil leak, on-site maintenance has been carried out and the passenger plane is expected to take off for tokyo haneda airport soon.

it is worth mentioning that a similar situation occurred in japan last month: on the 12th local time, a singapore airlines boeing 787-10 passenger plane landed on runway b at narita airport, and thick smoke came out of the left engine.

singapore airlines said:the incident was caused by a technical problem with the brake system, the ground engineering team has replaced a tire and the problem has been solved.