One of two charter flights carrying cruise ship passengers from Japan landed at a California air force base early Monday, starting the clock on a quarantine period to ensure passengers don’t have the new virus that’s been spreading in Asia.
A plane carrying American passengers touched down at Travis Air Force Base in northern California just before 2:30 a.M., local time. Another flight was headed to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
Japan’s Defence Minister Taro Kono had tweeted earlier that Japanese troops helped transport 340 US passengers on 14 buses from Yokohama port to Tokyo’s Haneda airport. About 380 Americans were on the cruise ship.