About 160 passengers would take off in a Boeing 737 of Japan Airlines were forced to go down the emergency slide. The cause of being performed procedure was smoke inside the aircraft, caused by a failure in the right engine 737.
The evacuation of the aircraft left four people injured, who were taken immediately to the local hospital. The Boeing 737 was serving a daytime domestic flight that left from New Chitose Airport to Fukuoka.
The pilot said the right engine stopped working after ingesting a quantity of snow that was on the banks of the taxiway, shortly after the crew noticed the presence of smoke in the cabin.