Accident Suspends Tokyo Monorail to Haneda Airport.

An elevated rail link to Tokyo's Haneda airport was temporarily suspended Sunday after a crane briefly hit the monorail service, trapping around 130 passengers for about two hours before they were rescued uninjured, operator Tokyo Monorail Co. said.

One female passenger, 37, complained of feeling sick and was taken to hospital, according to firefighters.

The crane truck was parked on a road about eight meters below therail tracks for installation of a traffic sign and the crane arm touched the lower part of the front car of the monorail train at around 2:35 p.m. in Tokyo's Minato Ward, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

The police are investigating if there were any procedural problems in the installation work of the crane.

All monorail services linking Haneda airport and Hamamatsucho station on Japan Railway's Yamanote loop line were suspended before resuming operation at 7:41 p.m., the operator said.

After the accident, the monorail train moved closer to Tennozu Isle station, one stop from Hamamatsucho. A train was dispatched on another track to pull up alongside to accommodate passengers from the affected train, who moved to the other train across a board used to bridge the gap between the two trains. The rescue operation was completed at around 4:30 p.m., the police said.

The passengers disembarked from the train at Tennozu Isle station.

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