Escaped dog closes runway, disrupts flights at Tokyo airport

A dog checked as cargo by a passenger on a Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo's Haneda airport Monday morning escaped before being loaded onto the plane, causing a runway to be shut temporarily and disrupting a total of 14 flights.The large poodle had been placed in a special basket but when JAL staff tried to load it onto the flight bound for Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, it escaped and ran off towards the runways at around 8:50 a.m., according to the transport ministry.The commotion caused one of the airport's four runways to be closed twice for a total of six minutes, delaying departures and l…READ FULL ARTICLE