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© 2012 AFPSendai airport reopens with WWII bomb still there
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NeoJamal
Berlin's Templehoff Airport was able to operate with a Nazi extensive Labyrinth full of booby traps in its basement. Who says we can't do the same.
CrisGerSan
I am hopeful they can get it defused and removed without incident. A moving combination of imagery of terrible events both of human and natural origin.
shirokuma2011
Not sure what discussing the matter with local residents will accomplish, short of delaying the bomb's safe disposal... are there people living near the runway??
Thunderbird2
Glad I'm landing at Narita at the weekend and not Sendai... that's scary!
basroil
This thing is in the middle of nowhere (unlike the Tokyo one), so they really don't need to do much more than strap some C4 and a place few dozen 10-ton sandbags (they can ask the US military for some) on top. Just detonate the thing and watch the bags barely move.
Thunderbird2
basroil... I think the JGSDF also have sandbags.
smithinjapan
Hopefully they at least stop any flights landing/taking off at the moment diffusing begins. Better to be safe than sorry.
ebisen
basroil, yeah, and if it does not explode, just watch them close the whole airport for at least two weeks, in order to get it the hell out of there
Fadamor
Unreal. In the time it will take to construct the concrete walls that were ordered by the "bomb disposal experts", they could have carted the bomb to a safe place and exploded it.
Stephen Jez
Wait, sandbags that weigh a ton each? Think someone made a mistake when writing this article.
It would probably be quicker, and safer for EOD personnel, to just detonate it.
borscht
What would these legal details be? Who owns it? Who gets to photograph it?
Stephen Jez
Normally they allow the JSDF detonate these since it's a good training experience.