More than 80 flights were cancelled. Airport operations are expected to resume on the morning of Thursday, October 3.
In Miyazaki, Japan, a World War II bomb exploded at the airport, resulting in the cancellation of over 80 flights. Associated Press reports.
According to Japan’s Ministry of Land and Transport, there were no aircraft in the vicinity of the airport when the explosion occurred.
As a result of the explosion, a crater with a diameter of about 7 meters and a depth of 1 meter was formed.
An American bomb weighing 500 pounds (over 225 kilograms) was found to have exploded, dropped during World War II, but did not explode. The cause of the projectile explosion is currently being investigated.
More than 80 flights have been canceled, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said. Airport operations are expected to resume on the morning of Thursday, October 3.
The area around Miyazaki Airport, built in 1943 as a training ground for the former Imperial Navy, was once the site of several unexploded bombs dropped by the US military during World War II.
We remind you that on the morning of October 2, it was discovered that part of the taxiway at Miyazaki Airport had collapsed, so the runway was closed.
It was previously reported that a World War II bomb weighing 250 kilograms exploded in the British city of Great Yarmouth.
Source: korrespondent
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