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To: Dealer who wrote (1)9/29/2000 1:22:13 PM
From: T L Comiskey  Read Replies (1) of 65232
 
RIP van Winkle.........wakes up 'Pissed off...'

WW2 Bomb Explodes at Airport, Misses Plane

BERLIN (Reuters) - A World War Two-era bomb exploded at an
airport in the German town of Siegen Thursday, blowing a
50-foot-wide hole in the runway moments after a passenger plane
had landed, police said.

No one was injured by the blast, which left a crater several
yards deep and forced officials to shut the airport.

The bomb exploded at the small regional airport in the
western state of North Rhine-Westphalia just hours before Queen
Beatrix of the Netherlands was to land there Friday for a
private visit in the nearby state of Hesse, authorities said.

The bomb, which was buried beneath the runway, blew up only
minutes after a passenger plane had landed. Authorities said
vibrations from the plane may have set off the aging bomb.

``We assume it was a large World War Two-era bomb,'' said a
police spokesman in the town south of Cologne. ``All other
possibilities have been categorically ruled out.''

Thousands of unexploded bombs are buried in Germany, many
dropped by U.S. and British planes during World War Two.

Munitions experts are racing against time to find the bombs
before they become unstable and explode. Police said they would
investigate whether other unexploded bombs were buried at the
airport.
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