Naked man near runway delays flights
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More than 10 flights were interrupted at an airport in east China after a man found naked and on drugs illegally crossed into the airport perimeter, authorities said yesterday.
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The Nanchang Changbei International Airport [file photo] |
The man crossed a fence and managed to enter the restricted areas near the runway of the Nanchang Changbei International Airport in Jiangxi Province around 10pm on Thursday.
Eleven flights to and from the airport were delayed because the airport had to close its single runway at around 10:30pm for about 45 minutes for a police search, airport officials said.
The closure, amidst the Spring Festival travel rush, caused a flight from south China's Guangzhou City to return because it could not land at the Nanchang airport.
The intruder, who had been taking drugs, was caught at 10:44pm, authorities said.
"The man was naked, crouching inside a ditch beside the runway when the airport police found him," an official with the airport said.
The man was a villager living nearby and just had a quarrel with his family, a preliminary investigation showed.
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