What I don't understand is why there would have to be an hour's shutdown. How long could it take to get a tug out there and push back one of the planes? At big airports planes occasionally blunder onto taxiways, etc., that they can't get out of of, especially on foggy/rainy nights, and they have to be pushed back (since all but a tiny number of airliners cannot back up by themselves). Dunno why that would take an hour at a somewhere like NRT. -- Michael C. Berch mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Jun 16, 2004, at 6:45 PM, Gerard M Foley wrote: > Thinking more about the Narita question, I suspect that Korean delayed > when > holding short of the runway, the wind shifted, and the controllers > forgot it > was there and turned the airport around to let KLM be the first to > land in > the other direction.