According to CNN
Every once in a while you hear about an airliner landing accidentally or due to emergency at one of these small airports; but this is the first time I've heard of a heavy landing and attempting to take off from such a tiny, non-towered field.
The departure is to be attempted within the hour - and I just know somebody, somewhere is going to be YouTubing it. I can't wait to see it. Good luck to the crew!
Quote:
Late Wednesday night, the plane, which was bound for McConnell Air Force Base from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, missed its mark by about 12 miles. Instead of landing at the military airport on Wichita's southeast side, it landed at the much-smaller, general-aviation Col. James Jabara Airport on the northeast side. Jabara has no control tower and normally doesn't handle jumbo jets. The Atlas Air 747 Dreamlifter is a modified 747-400 passenger airplane that can haul more cargo by volume than any airplane in the world. When fully loaded, the Dreamlifter needs a runway 9,199 feet long to take off, reports affiliate KWCH. The Jabara runway is 6,101 feet. The difference -- more than half a mile. But a spokeswoman for the airport authority, Valerie Wise, cited favorable weather on Thursday and the fact that much of the fuel had been used in the flight from JFK -- which lightened the weight of the plane -- for the conclusion that it was safe to take off on the shorter runway. "The engineers have been running calculations all night," she said. |
Every once in a while you hear about an airliner landing accidentally or due to emergency at one of these small airports; but this is the first time I've heard of a heavy landing and attempting to take off from such a tiny, non-towered field.
The departure is to be attempted within the hour - and I just know somebody, somewhere is going to be YouTubing it. I can't wait to see it. Good luck to the crew!
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