Japan Airlines plane in flames at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Sprucegoose said:
It often takes a fatality or similar calamity to drive change/improvements.

I have seen red lights on taxiways previously given; as mentioned by JB, airports and taxiways can be spatially confusing environments.
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Sydney has them - they are called STOPBARS. This is in addition to the RGLs - Runway Guard Lights which are the classic yellow flashing lights you see pretty much universally.

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drron said:
That video makes it even more remarkable that all on the A350 survived.
The 12 Australians were likely from the ski resorts in Hokkaido and possibly connecting to a flight back to Australia. Most likely had their passports in their carry on bags. The Embassy has some work to do as well.
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When travelling, I normally always keep my essentials (wallet, phone, keys, passport, all quite small now so minimal space used) in my jeans pocket or jacket pocket for ease of access and also able to grab quickly if needed in an emergency.
So simple, don't know why more don't do so.
Makes it much easier to fill out the destination arrival cards too.
 
mrflyby said:
When travelling, I normally always keep my essentials (wallet, phone, keys, passport, all quite small now so minimal space used) in my jeans pocket or jacket pocket for ease of access and also able to grab quickly if needed in an emergency.
So simple, don't know why more don't do so.
Makes it much easier to fill out the destination arrival cards too.
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Also, shoes on. I'm not running through Jet A1 in thongs.
 
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mrflyby said:
When travelling, I normally always keep my essentials (wallet, phone, keys, passport, all quite small now so minimal space used) in my jeans pocket or jacket pocket for ease of access and also able to grab quickly if needed in an emergency.
So simple, don't know why more don't do so.
Makes it much easier to fill out the destination arrival cards too.
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When flying internationally I almost always have a shirt with a pocket to hold my passport and BP - easier to retrieve when you have to show, but I also always carry it in the shirt pocket for take off and landing and phone in shorts/pants pocket … just in case.
 
There's someone screaming in the youtube comments VASAviation video that the airport shouldn't even have been open because of the earthquake, the day before, on the other side of the country and that all flights in Japan should have been grounded due to communications being "compromised" as a result of the quake, like the US did on 911. :rolleyes:
 
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mrflyby said:
When travelling, I normally always keep my essentials (wallet, phone, keys, passport, all quite small now so minimal space used) in my jeans pocket or jacket pocket for ease of access and also able to grab quickly if needed in an emergency.
So simple, don't know why more don't do so.
Makes it much easier to fill out the destination arrival cards too.
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Yes it made me think of this too. However it’s not quite so simple for women as many items of women’s clothing don’t have pockets at all, and if they do have pockets these are often more decorative than functional.

That said, I will be looking for new items with better pockets for exactly the reasons you’ve mentioned.

And welcome to posting on AFF!
 
drron said:
That video makes it even more remarkable that all on the A350 survived.
The 12 Australians were likely from the ski resorts in Hokkaido and possibly connecting to a flight back to Australia. Most likely had their passports in their carry on bags. The Embassy has some work to do as well.
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I immediately thought of your family drron as I think you said they went skiing in Hokkaido. Luckily not them but good news that all pax managed to escape the plane (sad for the Coast Guard one though). Probably not a chance.
 
dajop said:
When flying internationally I almost always have a shirt with a pocket to hold my passport and BP - easier to retrieve when you have to show, but I also always carry it in the shirt pocket for take off and landing and phone in shorts/pants pocket … just in case.
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As we flew on EK to Singapore just a few hours ago I was much more mindful about the exit signs, ensuring I knew where my shoes were and have them on during departure and landing a couple of hours ago and I travel with a small bag that contains passport etc and can wear around my neck during the flight. Ditto for the flight I’m catching from Singapore on QF in 90 minutes.

We had to circle Singapore for around 30 minutes this arvo. There was a bird strike on a plane just landed. Would have given everyone a nasty surprise.
 
love_the_life said:
I immediately thought of your family drron as I think you said they went skiing in Hokkaido. Luckily not them but good news that all pax managed to escape the plane (sad for the Coast Guard one though). Probably not a chance.
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They had a closer call than us. They flew JAL CTS-HND on New Years day and connected with QF HND -SYD.
On the CTS - HND flight my son and eldest grandaughter were in the exit row down the back.
 
Quickstatus said:
Another comment on VAsAviation:
Ah no....🤦
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Someone in a VA Facebook group was saying to “watch out” for JL and to not fly them.

My response:

“ that they can perform a flawless emergency evacuation of a high density widebody aircraft with only 3 of the 8 available exits working? Yep I’ll definitely be happy on JL.”
 

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