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Local media reported that Miyazaki Airport, southwestern Japan, resumed operations on the morning of the fifth day of the exhibition, one day after its scheduled date due to a failed bomb explosion during the war that destroyed a section of its taxi runway.
or Japan Airlines flights to Fukuoka The plane departed again at 7:40 a.m. local time, which is not the first time since the airport was scheduled to undergo security verification in the fourth quarter, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Kyodo News.
The Transportation Ministry office at Miyazaki Airport said on the fourth day that an explosion was heard on the taxi runway just before 8 a.m. local time, when air traffic controllers billowed smoke from the terminal.
The airport office said that the explosion created an oval crater approximately 7 meters wide, 4 meters long and 1 meter deep on the asphalt pavement adjacent to the taxi route.
No flights were canceled and a total of 87 flights were canceled into the airport at 2pm local time, as the runway was dated that day.
The Japanese Self-Defense Forces and local investigative authorities determined that the explosion was caused by a 500-pound aircraft launched during World War II.
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