The explosion occurred on Wednesday, October 2, on a taxiway next to the runway at Miyazaki Airport on the island of Kyusu. At the moment explosion there were none in the area plane. No one was injured. The authorities assure that there is no risk of further explosions, it says Associated Press.
Japan. A World War II bomb exploded. Flights were cancelled
An investigation by the Self-Defense Forces and the police confirmed that the explosion was caused by an American missile bomb weighing approximately 220 kilograms and there is no further danger. Investigations are ongoing as to what caused the sudden detonation.
More than 80 flights were canceled at a Japanese airport flights. At the site of the explosion, a crater was created with a diameter of about seven meters and a depth of one meter. Authorities hope that the surface will be repaired quickly and the airport will resume operations on Thursday morning.
The island of Kyusu was bombed by the US during World War II
During World War II, there was a military base on the Japanese island of Kyusu from which kamikaze pilots took off. The Americans intensively bombed the airport. Unexploded ordnance has been found there for decades. Miyazaki Airport was built in 1943.
It is not uncommon throughout Japan – almost 2.5 thousand were found there last year alone. cargo from World War II. “Hundreds of tons of unexploded ordnance from the war remain buried across Japan and are sometimes unearthed on construction sites,” notes the Associated Press.