ANA 787 Visit by Surprise!

Received a surprise email from an anonymous friend this early afternoon regarding a 787 Dreamliner landing at YVR this morning.  Owned by ANA (All Nippon Airways) and registered as JA813A, the plane touched down at 10:05 AM and departed at 12:03 PM.  

So what was it doing here?  Upon more research through FlightAware, the flight was assigned as NH1078, NRT-SEA (Narita, Tokyo to Seattle), a scheduled commercial flight.  Scheduled to touch down at 09:50 on the stripe of SEA, the flight was diverted to YVR (reason unknown yet).  The flight took off and was scheduled to continue on to the initial origin SEA by 12:33, a 31 minutes flight.  

Though I've seen many 787s at Paine Field, I'm excited to know that it stopped by YVR.  Despite the fact that I missed it, knowing that it came already made my day, especially on a sunny Sunday.  Thanks again to my "Anonymous" friend for forwarding the info and some photos!  Hope some scheduled 787 flights to YVR will happen soon.  A potential carrier is JAL, which could replace its current 767 fleet for the NRT-YVR route.  Of course, Air Canada will receive its 787 orders in 2013 or 2014, and I'm sure a few will be scheduled to and from YVR.  

** Photo Credit:  Anonymous Friend's Friend **   

NH 1078 (ANA 787) parked by the YVR De-icing Apron
(Again, Photo credit to Anonymous friend's friend)