Japan main airport opens runway after deadly crash

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TOKYO, Mar 24 (AP): Investigators hauled away charred wreckage and planes began to land again Tuesday morning on the main runway of Japan's largest international airport, where a day earlier a FedEx cargo flight crashed and exploded, killing its two pilots.
About 170 workers laboured Monday night under giant construction lights to clean up the scene and remove the remnants of the MD-11 cargo plane, pieces of which were put onto large flatbed trucks and moved to a spot about 300 metres away for investigation.
The runway was declared fit for use by airport officials and officially reopened at 9:10 am Tuesday.
The plane's black box data recorder and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered and the data seems to be usable, according to Transport Ministry spokesman Michinobu Osuka. Officials from the US National Transportation Safety Board were expected to arrive in Tokyo Tuesday afternoon to assist in the investigation, he said.