AKIPRESS.COM - The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 will land in the Japanese city of Nagoya, as bad weather delayed a landmark attempt by the plane to cross the Pacific Ocean, organisers said.
"Weather deteriorating over Pacific, decision taken for intermediate landing in Nagoya and wait for better conditions," Bertrand Piccard, the initiator of the mission, tweeted.
The plane was earlier in the day in a holding pattern near Japan as organisers warned that bad weather in the days ahead could block its ambitious bid to cross the Pacific.
The seventh leg of the round-the-world journey was set to take pilot Andre Borschberg, 62, on a six-day, six-night flight from the Chinese city of Nanjing to Hawaii, on an 8,500-kilometre flight across the Pacific.
The bold attempt was called off just after 3pm Shanghai time, and organisers said the plane was expected to land in Nagoya on Monday evening, reports ABC.