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Ugliest Plane Ever: Boeing’s Dreamlifter Is the World’s Longest Cargo Plane The Dreamlifter is Boeing’s largest bulky cargo freighter, and is used exclusively for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner supply chain, where the Dreamlifter transports 787 wings and other components inside its enormous cargo hold. Here's What You Need to Remember: Boeing’s Dreamlifter is certainly one ugly duckling, though its worth is not in looks but in its practicality. It greatly simplified the parts supply chain for the 787 Dreamliner. And if that’s not enough—it even holds a world record to boot—longest c...

School. >> the pilot may not have been aware that the runway was short until he actually touched down. is that how it would have happened? >> yes, that is how it happened. once you touch down, there are markings on the runway that let you know you are passed the midway point. he or she might have been very surprised to find out that they were running out of runway very quickly. the fast action. southwest pilots do hand fly the plane. they don't do full auto land as much as others sometimes. so they often credit southwest pilots as being good hands-on pilots. that came in very handy. if he had ...

Each other, to check that they are right. that is the sort of way this happens. and one other thing, in u.s. aviation, not so much overseas in europe, air traffic control will often give you a clear to land, clear to land, quite a long way out. so they will have gone up to approach, got on to final approach and would have been at branson airport they would have been told clear to land and they would be using their own navigation. as they came in to land, they just did it. >> no one yells at them and says you're too low, you're too low because you're seven miles from the real airport? >> in the...

The pilot didn't brake when he did, the plane could have overshot the runway and tumbled on to a highway. passengers evacuated the plane before being bussed to the larger airport. in november, a boeing 747 cargo plane also landed at the wrong airport. this time, in kansas on a runway half a mile shorter than it usually uses. despite fears the dream lifter would be stuck at the kansas airport indefinitely, it eventually took off without incident. southwest is hoping for a similarly successful for their boeing 737. >> at this hour, no info just yet on if or when they will be able to get that pla...

The pilot didn't brake when he did, the plane could have overshot the runway and tumbled on to a highway. passenger scott schieffer captured the aftermath on video. it shows passengers evacuating the plane before being bussed to the larger airport. in november, a boeing 747 cargo plane also landed at the wrong airport. this time in kansas. on a runway half a mile shorter than it usually uses. despite fears the dream lifter would be stuck at the kansas airport indefinitely, it eventually took off without incident. southwest is hoping for a similarly successful outcome for their boeing 737. >> a...