Off target: The Asiana Airlines plane sitting on the grass area at the Hiroshima airport in Mihara, western Japan, after it skidded off a runway. (Inset) Officials checking the broken localiser.
TOKYO: An Asiana Airlines plane smashed into a communications antenna as it came in to land at a Japanese airport, footage showed, injuring 27 people in an accident with echoes of the Korean airline’s fatal 2013 crash in San Francisco.
Aerial footage from Hiroshima airport in western Japan showed yesterday the localiser – a large gate-like structure 6m high that sits around 300m from the start of the runway – splintered, with debris spread towards the landing strip.
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