All Sendai airport flights cancelled

All Sendai airport flights cancelled

SENDAI, Japan - Photo on Oct. 30, 2012, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the location (pointed by an arrow) where an unexploded shell, believed to be a U.S. shell dropped during World War II, was found at a construction site near the runaways of Sendai airport, northeastern Japan. Domestic and international flights scheduled that day at the airport were cancelled.

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