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| Southeast Asia |
| Malaysia: WWII era bomb shuts down airport |
| 2010-04-19 |
| Sabah's main airport, the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA), had to halt operations for two hours after a World War II-era bomb was discovered on a building site. Workers undertaking terminal upgrading had stumbled on the bomb between the taxiway and the runway and bomb disposal experts removed and detonated it in an open space outside the airport. An airport spokesman said 20 local and international incoming and out-going flights were delayed as police bomb squad removed the WWII relic. The KKIA is the country's second busiest airport. Unexploded WW II bombs have been detected at regular intervals in Sabah mainly during construction work in the city as well as in Sandakan and the interior of the state. The bombs, were part of the Allied bombings in the tail end of the war to liberate the then North Borneo (now Sabah) from the Japanese. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #1 KKIA is a hell of a code for an airport..... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-04-19 00:08 |