From kls Wed Feb 11 04:24:03 1998 Path: bounce-back Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Date: 11 Feb 98 04:24:03 From: wb8foz@netcom.com (David Lesher) Subject: 727 @ ORD; hard landing. References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex Reply-To: wb8foz@netcom.com (David Lesher) C-upi@clari.net (UPI) writes: > The Boeing 727 jetliner remained mired deep in the mud today, 1,500 >feet off the tarmac. None of the 115 passengers and six crew members >aboard was injured but the plane lost its landing gear, left engine and >baggage was thrown across a field. {200 ft short of 14R} > Aviation Commissioner Mary Rose Loney said, ``It's going to be quite >a job getting the aircraft out of the mud. It's buried.'' > Loney said crews may have to construct a gravel road to support heavy >equipment such as a crane needed to remove the plane. I thought there existed large lifting bags that were set under the wings and inflated....... In any case, you know it will scrapped after this.... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433