Jumbo jet 'stuck' after landing at wrong airport

[robinessex]

Jumbo jet 'stuck' after landing at wrong airport

A Boeing 747 Dreamlifter cargo plane may be stuck at a minor airport in Kansas for some time after it apparently landed there by mistake.

The giant cargo jet was heading for McConnell air force base in Wichita but instead touched down at nearby Colonel James Jabara airport.

Local media report that the jet may be too large to take off from Jabara's 1,860m (6,100ft) runway.

Now Boeing are now saying it can take off from the shorter runway. I wonder if the guy who said that is going along for the ride when it trys that?

[dazwalsh]

surely an empty 747 on minimal fuel will get out of there, might have to wait for a decent headwind though.

it takes an absolute donkey to land at the wrong airport though.

[robinessex]

dazwalsh said:

surely an empty 747 on mimimal fuel will get out of there, might have to wait for a decent headwind though.

That's if it landed empty !! Needs 2780 Mtrs to take of at full weight. Has got 1860 Mtrs avaliable. Only 67% of what it needs?

[Rawwr]

What they need is a conveyor belt.

[Monty Zoomer]

They should convert it to a cafe

[Engineer1]

Empty it ship the cargo by road hell if it really stuck modify it till it fits down closed roads and ship it by road to somewhere they can fix it and put it back in service.

[thismonkeyhere]

Rawwr said:

What they need is a conveyor belt.

tt

[Badgerboy]

Pretty sure an airforce transport aircraft did this recently too.

They simply offloaded the cargo and removed most of the fuel. The big widebodies are surprisingly powerful when not loaded down with fuel, cargo etc.

[davepoth]

Engineer1 said:

Empty it ship the cargo by road hell if it really stuck modify it till it fits down closed roads and ship it by road to somewhere they can fix it and put it back in service.

Are you really an engineer?

[Vipers]

Rawwr said:

What they need is a conveyor belt.

Always works . Guess there are a couple of pilots and control tower chappie on the dole then.

[Tonto]

Rawwr said:

What they need is a conveyor belt.

Don't understand. Why a conveyor belt?




















Only joking. I'm familiar with the infamous thread

[Rollcage]

Rawwr said:

What they need is a conveyor belt.

Pray tell......

[V8 Fettler]

RATO!

[Vocal Minority]

Vipers said:

Always works . Guess there are a couple of pilots and control tower chappie on the dole then.

That was my first thought!

[KTF]

ATC capture of the event is here: https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2F...

Its not stuck, just needs a tug to turn it round as there isn't the space to do that itself.

Once its facing the right way, 6000 is plenty to get it off the ground empty with a light fuel load.

[GTIR]

747's (cargo and passenger) land at Cambridge airport.

Can't remember if they land empty or take off fitted out or the other way round though?
Either way they can't do both as the runway is too small.

[Du1point8]

Attach those rockets to it that assist in short runway take off?

[406highlander]

JATO (jet-assisted take-off) units? Not sure how those attach structurally to the Hercules; that said, the Dreamlifters are already very heavily modified as it is. I think this aircraft could be there for a while.

[robinessex]

Call Bruce Willis. Charlton Heston is dead.

[KTF]

GTIR said:

747's (cargo and passenger) land at Cambridge airport.

Can't remember if they land empty or take off fitted out or the other way round though?
Either way they can't do both as the runway is too small.

Other way round. Land full, take off empty. They need a much shorter run when there is nothing in them.