November 21, 201312 yr Massive Plane Mistakenly Landed At A Tiny Kansas Airport And Is Stuck There The mammoth plane needs 9,199 feet of runway to take off at maximum weight, but the runway length at Jabara is just 6,101 feet. :eyeonyou::eek:
November 21, 201312 yr Author "It is not presently known why the plane landed at the smaller airport but it appears to have been a mistake." That seems fairly obvious.
November 21, 201312 yr I just saw one of the planes at the Boeing facility in Charleston, SC during a tour a couple of weeks ago. There are only 4 or 5 of them if I remember correctly. These things are massive and are designed to carry large fuselage parts of the new 787, which they build and fabricate parts there in SC. The thing looks like the Hindenburg sitting on the runway.
November 21, 201312 yr Author I'm glad they were able to land without having a crash. It had to be a close call at the smaller airport.
November 21, 201312 yr That's a crazy story. I wonder what they will do? Even offloading gallons of fuel and the cargo, that still would be a nerve wracking take off.
November 21, 201312 yr I'm glad they were able to land without having a crash. It had to be a close call at the smaller airport. Maybe though they can probably land in a shorter distance. The airport I used work at was 6300 ft., so that is similar in size to this airport. That is a huge difference. I am guessing the plane probably would be safe, but it still probably breaks FAA regulations.
November 21, 201312 yr I just saw a news report that the plane is set to take off later Thursday afternoon. There were no details on how it will be able to take off. I assume they will off load to reduce weight which should shorten the amount of takeoff runway needed.
November 21, 201312 yr JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off), perhaps? Yeah, the first thing I thought of was Mythbusters. They'd build a ramp on one end of the runway, and strap a 100 JATO's onto the plane. :lol2:
November 21, 201312 yr I would not want to be the guy trying to get that thing off the ground... The end of that runway will come up quick.
November 21, 201312 yr I remember sitting on the runway at JFK in May in one of those tiny regional jets... Taxiing out to the runway, there was a line of planes waiting to take off, and several of them were those HUGE Airbus planes... I couldn't believe how big they were next to the plane I was on. What was even more impressive was the fact that they actually fly. :lol2:
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