Flights resumed at Sanya Phoenix International Airport on Hainan at 6am on Saturday as Typhoon Maysak, the 10th typhoon of the year, weakened.

The tropical storm made landfall at around 6.20pm on Friday in Yelin Township of Lingshui Li Autonomous County, northeast of Sanya, according to the Hainan provincial meteorological bureau.

It swept across Hainan into the northern Beibu Gulf on Friday night.

The first outbound flight CZ6731 took off at 7.18am on Saturday.

The bureau maintained a Level-III typhoon warning at 9.20am on Saturday, as Typhoon Maysak was located about 155 kilometres south-southeast of Dongxing City in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region as of 8am, with maximum sustained winds of 23 metres per second near its centre.

Maysak is expected to move north-northwest at 10 to 15 kilometres per hour and maintain its current intensity.

It is forecast to make landfall again on Saturday night along the coast near the border between Guangxi and northern Vietnam, after which it will turn northward and gradually weaken. (Xinhua)




Edited by Tony Sabine