Jumbo jet 'stuck' after landing at wrong airport

Jumbo jet 'stuck' after landing at wrong airport

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robinessex

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11,102 posts

183 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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

6,098 posts

143 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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

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11,102 posts

183 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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

22,722 posts

236 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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What they need is a conveyor belt.

Monty Zoomer

1,459 posts

159 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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They should convert it to a cafe laugh

Engineer1

10,486 posts

211 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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

10,520 posts

233 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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Rawwr said:
What they need is a conveyor belt.
hehe

tt

Badgerboy

1,788 posts

194 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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

29,395 posts

201 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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

32,958 posts

230 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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Rawwr said:
What they need is a conveyor belt.
Always works biggrin. Guess there are a couple of pilots and control tower chappie on the dole then.




smile

Tonto

2,983 posts

250 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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 smile


Rollcage

11,327 posts

194 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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Rawwr said:
What they need is a conveyor belt.
Pray tell......

V8 Fettler

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134 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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RATO!

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

154 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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Vipers said:
Always works biggrin. Guess there are a couple of pilots and control tower chappie on the dole then.




smile
That was my first thought!

KTF

9,858 posts

152 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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

24,741 posts

268 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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

21,618 posts

194 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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Attach those rockets to it that assist in short runway take off?

406highlander

182 posts

135 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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

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183 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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Call Bruce Willis. Charlton Heston is dead.

KTF

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152 months

Thursday 21st November 2013
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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.