Hakodate

A spokesperson for ANA, Japan's largest carrier, said that the crack had been found as the flight passed over Hakodate.

Tons of mostly sardines and mackerel were discovered on more than a kilometre of sand stretching across the shores of Hakodate, Japan.

Takashi Fujioka, a Hakodate Fisheries Research Institute researcher, said he has heard of similar phenomena before, but it was his first time to see it.

The aircraft flew toward the southwestern port city of Hakodate.

The bus was traveling from Sapporo to Hakodate, and the truck was carrying pigs from Hakodate to Yakumo, Kyodo said.