There are many reasons for ____ at airports. Sometimes it's bad weather, sometimes it's a technical ____, and other times it's a passenger who is late to the boarding gate. Narita Airport in Tokyo, Japan has added a new cause of ____ – a turtle going for a walk. The runway at Narita had to close for 12 minutes because a 2.1-kilogram turtle was ____ on the tarmac. The pilot of an airplane waiting to ____ off told air traffic controllers about the small reptile at around 11:35am. There was an immediate search for it. This caused the delay of five flights. Airport staff managed to ____ the creature. They safely ____ it with a net. They reported that it was ____. A Narita Airport spokesperson said she believed the turtle lived in a nearby ____. It managed to get under a ____ alongside the airport and crawl onto the runway. The turtle might have decided to sunbathe because of the ____ weather. It was a lot ____ than usual at the airport for the time of the year. Shortly after the turtle was caught, an A380 airplane took off from the ____. By coincidence, the A380 was ____ in a turtle design. The plane was from the Japanese airline ANA. It was going to the island of Okinawa in the south of Japan. An ANA spokesperson said: "Turtles are seen as ____ good luck. We hope this turtle, who came to see the flight off, signals a ____ future."

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