6/8: Sinking airport

Undertoad · 06-08-2001, 09:49 AM

An extravagant engineering mistake or a monument for Japan's new millennium? The debate over the world's first airport built on reclaimed land rages seven years after the sprawling complex opened on a skinny island off Osaka, Japan's second city, and then shocked the world by slowly starting to sink. Kansai International Airport, seen in a 1994 file photo, has sunk 40 feet since construction began in 1987.

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06-08-2001, 09:49 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	An extravagant engineering mistake or a monument for Japan's new millennium? The debate over the world's first airport built on reclaimed land rages seven years after the sprawling complex opened on a skinny island off Osaka, Japan's second city, and then shocked the world by slowly starting to sink. Kansai International Airport, seen in a 1994 file photo, has sunk 40 feet since construction began in 1987.

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