And the sky of Tokyo became hell

Tokyo

"Why are ice cubes the size of a golf ball falling on our heads?"

This is the question that Hiroaki Sugita was to answer Wednesday morning in the Diet, the Japanese Parliament.

For the new director of the civil aviation division of the Ministry of Transport, in this circular debate room like a lion's den, it's a baptism of fire.

On March 13, four ice cubes five centimeters in diameter fell from the sky on a tennis court in central Tokyo, fortunately without injuring the players present.

Their origin could be, speculate associations of residents and their representatives, the landing gear of planes taking the airway to Tokyo-Haneda airport (or “Haneda road”).

“In 2019, about twenty blocks of ice fell on the ground;

once the landing gears were deployed over the sea, these drops all but ceased.

There is a connection, right?

asks MP Taku Yamazoe.

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