Typhoon Mindulle Shuts Tokyo's Narita Airport Control
Tower
Strong winds from a typhoon forced air traffic
controllers to temporarily abandon the control tower at Narita International
Airport on Monday, shutting down one of Tokyo's two main airports for about an
hour. Hundreds of domestic flights were canceled at the city's other major
airport.
Narita was closed at 2:20 p.m. after the controllers left the
tower when wind speeds reached 126 kilometers (78 miles) per hour, said a
Transport Ministry official at the airport who would give only his surname,
Matsumoto. The airport reopened around an hour later.
It was the first
time the tower had been closed because of a typhoon. It closed once before,
because of shaking during the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that triggered a massive
tsunami in March 2011.
Typhoon Mindulle, which made landfall south of
Tokyo early Monday afternoon, brought heavy rain and strong winds to Tokyo and
surrounding areas.
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