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November 21, 2013 06:59 pm GMT

Giant Boeing Dreamlifter Lands at Wrong Airport

Dreamlifter

Boeing's Dreamlifter 747 aircraft — the plane that carries the 787 fuselages around the world — mistakenly landed at the Jabara Airport (AAO) near Wichita, Kan. Atlas Air Flight 4241, from New York's JFK, was scheduled to land at McConnell Air Force Base

Boeing and the FAA are investigating what led to the mistake; meanwhile the plane is stuck on the ground because the Jabara airport does not have a long enough runway to allow a safe takeoff.

See also: Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Returns to the Skies

Several media outlets picked up the news shortly after Joseph Graybill, a Wichita State aerospace engineering student, posted a photo of the Dreamlifter to Twitter around midnight local time Read more...

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