Solar Impulse 2 Plane Landed Unexpectedly In Japan; Team Is Still Up For The World Attempt

The first ever solar-powered plane Solar Impulse has touched down in Nagoya, Japan due to the rough weather which suspended its supposedly milestone pursuit to travel the Pacific Ocean.

A solar plane in quest to tour the world without fuel made an unanticipated land Monday night in Japan as an unconditional weather hits the Western Pacific Ocean. Organizers cautioned that bad weather expecting to cross the ocean in the coming days could cease their goal. The seventh journey of the said trip around the world was intended to take pilot Andre Borschberg, to fly six days and six nights from the Nanjing, China to Hawaii ahead of 8,500-kilometre flight crossing the Pacific.

After 44 hours and 10 minutes in the air, Borschberg stated on Twitter, "Landing in Nagoya Japan was not planned but there must be a good reason why our path has brought us here today." The flight begun in Abu Dhabi last March, it had stopped over in Oman, India, Myanmar and China. The seventh and definitely the most precarious one completing its halfway target of the 12 flights is its course from Nanjing to Hawaii.

The flight is hazardous because the Impulse is so insubstantial; as broad as a passenger jet, but comes in a weight of a car. which just goes to show that the plane might struggle high up against strong winds and turbulence. More so, it must be elevated on much higher altitude to charge batteries along the day before it flew at night.

In contempt of the aircraft's unpredicted land, Andre Borschberg, still is holding the record for the 'longest ever solar flight in both distance and duration.' They will wait for the weather in Japan to get better before attempting it again. It is required for his team to have an ideal atmospheric condition traversing from China to Hawaii in the span of five days, which will be the lengthiest solo flight documented in the aircraft history,