All Sendai airport flights cancelled

SENDAI, Japan - A signboard shows all flights are cancelled at Sendai airport, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 30, 2012. Domestic and international flights scheduled that day at the airport were cancelled after an unexploded shell, believed to be a U.S. shell dropped during World War II, was found at a construction site near its runaways.

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