An ANA All Nippon Airways Boeing 737-800, registration JA85AN performing flight NH-561 from Tokyo Haneda to Kochi (Japan), was climbing out of Tokyo's Haneda Airport when the crew stopped the climb at FL160 due to problems with the cabin pressure and descended the aircraft to FL130, later to FL100. The aircraft returned to Tokyo's Haneda Airport for a safe landing on runway 34R about 45 minutes after departure. One passenger needed to be taken to a hospital with ear injuries.
Japan's TSB reported on Jun 1st 2016, the crew received indication of the loss of cabin pressure while climbing out of Tokyo and returned to Tokyo. One passenger received injuries to the left ear, the rupture of the ear drum (left tympanic membrane perforation). The JTSB have opened an investigation.
The airline posted an apology for the malfunction of the cabin pressurization system.
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