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2 unusual facts about Haneda Airport


Hitachi TR.1

Testing of the TR.1 prototype commenced on 8 April 1938 at Haneda Airport, but it suffered a serious accident on 22 June due to a landing in which one of the main undercarriage units failed to extend.

Park Kyung-won

At 10:35 AM on of 7 August 1933, she took off from Tokyo's Haneda Airport on one such flight to Manchuria; she crashed 42 minutes later near Hakone, Kanagawa and died.


Airport Transport Service

ATS operates scheduled service to and from the area's two major airports, Haneda Airport and Narita International Airport, operating over 660 buses per day to Narita and over 550 to Haneda.

Japan Airlines Flight 350

The airplane crashed 9 February 1982 on approach to Haneda Airport in Tokyo Bay.


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