A buffer on the rear of a Japan Airlines jet hit the runway upon landing at Japan's Fukushima Airport Tuesday morning, the Mainichi Shimbun reported.
No one was injured, and the main body of the aircraft did not sustain any damage in the accident, airport officials said. The airport was temporarily closed until fragments of the damaged part were removed. A runway lamp was also broken after being hit by the buffer.
JAL Flight 2261, a Boeing 767-300 which had flown from Osaka Airport with 133 passengers and crew members aboard, hit the runway when it landed around 9:15 a.m.
Airline officials said the pilot may have raised the aircraft's nose too sharply prior to the landing.
The accident came less than a week after JAL executives were summoned before Japan's Transport Ministry over a recent series of safety violations involving the company's airplanes.
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