This is boeing!

[fly_tornado]

Fail fail fail

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/21/travel/kansas-cargo-plane-wrong-airport/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_us+%28RSS%3A+U.S.%29

 

 

[dazza 38]

I dunno ,I'm sure they will work something out. For starters, take off with absolute minimum fuel and no cargo to get to the closest useable field .

 

 

[kgwilson]

Red faces all round. Looks like a fotal tuckup.

 

 

[Ultralights]

no dramas, remove cargo, and just enough fuel to get the 12 miles to the intended destination, should get off in 6000ft easily, even wait for a day with decent headwinds if need be.

 

 

[fly_tornado]

just like flying a jab eh! both hands on the brakes if they need to abort?

 

 

[Phil Perry]

I'm sure Bruce Willis or Charlton Heston could have sorted that little problem out without difficulty,. . . .why make a drama aout of a crisis ? ? ? ?

 

 

[keith.b]

no dramas, remove cargo, and just enough fuel to get the 12 miles to the intended destination, should get off in 6000ft easily, even wait for a day with decent headwinds if need be.

Add a few booster rockets ........

 

 

[Zibi]

Looks like it managed to get out without booster rockets:

 

https://www.recreationalflying.com/xf2/index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=embed&url=https://twitter.com/KWCH12/statuses/403431348116811776

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-22/giant-cargo-plane-in-unexpected-stopover-at-tiny-us-airport/5109806

 

 

[facthunter]

Their nicknames will be different after that episode. I would wonder at the pavement load capacity, and they obviously had no turning node capable of taking it's size. It's not the first or the last time that will happen. Nev

 

 

[derekliston]

Last time I remember hearing of something like that, I was a kid at the time and I think it was a Super Connie approaching Heathrow and talking to control, landed at Northolt and same thing, told tower they were down and tower said not here you're not!

 

 

[fly_tornado]

lat time it was a C-5 Galaxy(? not sure) big grey 4 jet military transporter

 

 

[M61A1]

Having worked for Boeing, I'm pretty sure that "elaborate planning to make sure no-one gets hurt" means, stop everything, and move everyone for miles around, and tick some boxes on a sheet that makes someone else responsible. Oh, and fill out an environmental impact form to compensate for any small critters you might upset.

 

 

[M61A1]

The problem removing the cargo may well be getting it those last 12 miles across town, one of them fuselages isn't small.

 

 

[facthunter]

Some cargo mob ran the outfit. I can't see that it was Boeings fault, directly. Unless they took the lowest bidder and didn't check it all out I can't see how the pavement would take the weight on that runway. You have to check out all the bays and taxiways for load carrying capability If you don't go there regularly you will muck it up someway if you don't do the planning. Can't blame the language like you might in other places. Nev

 

 

[eightyknots]

"Onlookers and gawkers have caused accidents," said Roger Xanders, chief of airport police and fire.

 

I wonder how?