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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Joanna Whitehead

Japan Airlines flight forced to fly 550 miles back to Tokyo after missing airport’s closing time by 10 minutes

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A Japan Airlines flight was denied landing and had to fly 550 miles back to Tokyo after missing an airport’s closing time by 10 minutes.

Passenger flight JL331 was turned back outside Fukuoka Airport, on the northern shore of Japan’s Kyushu Island, on Sunday 19 February after missing its curfew for landing by minutes, The Asahi Shimbun reports.

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