{"id":280668,"date":"2025-11-13T15:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:52:17","slug":"bear-forces-airport-runway-to-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280668\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Forces Airport Runway to Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A bear halted all flights landing and taking off from a Japanese airport on Wednesday. Police said the animal, believed to be a cub, was first spotted at 1:05 p.m. at the Hanamaki Airport in the country\u2019s northeast region, <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/newsdig.tbs.co.jp\/articles\/ibc\/2284099&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/newsdig.tbs.co.jp\/articles\/ibc\/2284099\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/newsdig.tbs.co.jp\/articles\/ibc\/2284099\">according to the Iwate Broadcasting Company<\/a>. Two takeoffs and all landings were delayed for about an hour starting at 1:10 p.m. after the cub wandered onto the runway in the Iwate Prefecture, reported the outlet. The runway reopened at 2:30 p.m. after airport officials confirmed that it was no longer a threat to safety. Officials and police are searching the site for the bear, but it has yet to be found, according to the <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/959399&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/959399\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fnn.jp\/articles\/-\/959399\">Fuji News Network<\/a>. The airport office told <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/news.ntv.co.jp\/category\/society\/tv5d9f26bc5d7b4de5b044da3c38f372e5&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/news.ntv.co.jp\/category\/society\/tv5d9f26bc5d7b4de5b044da3c38f372e5\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/news.ntv.co.jp\/category\/society\/tv5d9f26bc5d7b4de5b044da3c38f372e5\">Nippon TV<\/a> that they are unsure how the bear got onto the grounds, which is surrounded by a fence that is over 6 feet tall. Surprisingly, this <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bear-runway-airport-japan-flights-canceled-stalemate\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bear-runway-airport-japan-flights-canceled-stalemate\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bear-runway-airport-japan-flights-canceled-stalemate\/\">isn\u2019t the first time<\/a> this year that a bear halted air traffic at a Japanese airport. A black bear at northern Japan\u2019s Yamagata Airport in June caused delays of up to an hour to four flights and a whopping 12 cancellations.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20251112_17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at NHK World Japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bear halted all flights landing and taking off from a Japanese airport on Wednesday. Police said the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1442,49,48,20652,66,323],"class_list":["post-280668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bears","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-flight","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}