Sendai Runway Partly Open For Relief Flights

By Bradley Perrett perrett@aviationweek.com .

Workers have cleared 1,500 meters (4,900 ft.) of mud-caked runway at Sendai airport, opening the facility for relief flights.

It is still not clear whether the pavement still under mud has been badly deformed by the March 11 earthquake, says an official of the security and safety division of the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau ...

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