Flights resume at Sanya airport after Typhoon Maysak weakens

Flights resumed at Sanya Phoenix International Airport in south China's Hainan province, at 6:00 am on July 4 as Typhoon Maysak, the 10th typhoon of the year, weakened.

The tropical storm made landfall at around 6:20 pm on July 3 in Yelin township of Lingshui Li autonomous county, according to the Hainan provincial meteorological bureau. It swept across Hainan Island into the northern Beibu Gulf that night.

The first outbound flight CZ6731 took off at 7:18 am on July 4.

The bureau maintained a Level-III typhoon warning at 9:20 am on July 4, as Typhoon Maysak was located about 155 kilometers south-southeast of Dongxing city in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region as of 8 am, with maximum sustained winds of 23 meters per second near its center.