A JAL jet narrowly averted tragedy when it landed on a runway that was blocked by a maintenance vehicle. It accelerated and took off, missing the vehicle by a few meters, the Japan Transport Safety Board said in a final report Friday.
An air traffic controller cleared the Boeing 767 to land at Tokushima Airport in Shikoku on April 5, 2015, despite earlier allowing a maintenance worker to drive onto the runway to replace burned-out lamps.
"It is probable that the tower ... had forgotten about the presence of the work vehicle," the report said.
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