affiliate kwch. landings at the wrong airport have happened before. last year a passenger plane carrying 14 people landed at the wrong airport in west virginia, and a military jet last year landed at tiny tampa airport in a residential area. giant 4241 heavy, that s j-a-b-a-r-r-a. okay, all right. we ll copy that. reporter: but neither of those planes were as giant as the dreamlifter, the modified passenger plane that boeing says can hold more cargo than any other plane in the world. all right, rene marsh joins us now from washington. what do we know about this takeoff attempt later today? reporter: christine, you see the video of the plane there, for several hours, it s huge. it s been sitting there on the tarmac. it has a wing span of it can fit some four three-bedroom homes so that shows you how massive this thing is. engineers had been trying for
reporter: a giant cargo plane stranded in wichita, kansas, this morning, after making a big mistake, landing at the wrong airport, ten miles away from where it was supposed to. giant 4241 heavy, do you know which airport you re at? well, we think we have a pretty good pulse. giant 4241 heavy, roger, you it appears you are at jabarra. say again? giant 4241 heavy, we saw the plane on the radar and it appears you are at jabarra airport. say again the name of it again? jabara. reporter: the jet was supposed to land at the mcconnell air force base late last night but somehow ended up at the jabara airport, making matters worse, jabara has no control tower and a runway that s only half the length of mcconnell s. mcconnell s is nine miles southeast. yes, sir, we just landed at the other airport. reporter: and it doesn t end there. a tug that was on its way to help move the dreamlifter broke down, according to wichita
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quite some time to figure out if it can takeoff. the takeoff attempt will happen about four hours from now. in the meantime the faa is trying to investigate what caused this confusion that happened in the cockpit. that s one really unusual day on the job for those pilots. can you imagine what a mess it would be if this were a passenger plane, 300 plus people sitting on the tarmac in kansas? thank you, rene marsh. an 85-year-old korean war veteran is detained in north korea for almost a month. merrill newman s son says his father was moments away from leaving pyongyang when north korean authorities hauled him away. the family hasn t heard from him since. his son spoke last night with our anderson cooper. went to dinner friday morning, next morning checked out of the hotel, went to the airport, got on the plane, apparently five minutes before they were ready to depart,
i m john berman. i m in for christine romans, carol costello has the day off. new this morning we learned that a jumbo jet stranded overnight at a wichita airport will be able to take off. this air deback started late last night when a huge cargo plane headed for a military base landed in a small airport instead. the atlas 747 dreamlifter headed to mcconnell air force base but for some reason it ended up ten miles away at the smaller jabarra airport. the faa is investigating what went wrong. officials feared the runway was too short for the dreamlifter to take off. officials tell cnn the plane will attempt to take off later today. rene marsh tells us how the plane got into this predicament in the first place.