On March 4, 1966, Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 struck the approach lights and a seawall during a night landing attempt in poor visibility at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan.

At 19:58 local time, the pilot asked Air Traffic control for a diversion to Songshan Airport, Taiwan and commenced a climb from 3000 ft. At 20:05 while enroute to Taipei climbing through 11500 ft the pilot was advised the visibility at the airport had increased above minimums to 0.5 mi (0.80 km) with a Runway visual range of 3,000 ft (900 m).

The pilot lost control of the aircraft after it hit the seawall at the runway threshold,[4] leaving a 0.5 mi (0.80 km) trail of burning wreckage on the airfield.

The Japanese government-appointed investigation team concluded in their report, issued two years later, that there was no fault in the airport's control tower.

[9] Less than a month before, All Nippon Airways Flight 60, a Boeing 727, crashed into Tokyo Bay while on approach to land at the same airport, killing all 133 aboard.