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Sunday, May 25. 2008

I didn´t believed, that something like that happens: A freighter 747 starts to take off, pilot rotates the machine, hears a strange sound, aborts the take off and the whole airframe breaks. You don´t believe it? Okay, here is a photo of N704CK at the end of the runway 20 in Brussels. The most unbelievable: No casualties despite of having enough fuel in the wings to fly to Bahrain.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in Aviation, English at 19:39 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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747 crashes at start
On May 25th a 747 of Kalitta Air breaked in parts after a rejected take off after shooting over the end of the runway. It looks like Kalitta Air has a strain of bad luck at the moment: CNN reported that another 747 crashed into a house near Bogota: 747 fr

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