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Boeing 727 Fleeing Sudan Conflict Overruns Runway
On Friday, April 28, an aircraft carrying Sudanese refugees overran the runway landing at Juba International Airport. The aircraft was overloaded with refugees. Reports revealed that over 300 people were onboard. (aeroxplorer.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This kind of overloading was common on evacuation flights from Darwin, Australia after the city was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy in December 1974. My great uncle flew out 296 people on a 154-seat Ansett 727-200, and a Qantas 747 reportedly carried 674 on one trip. http://www.adastron.com/cyclone-tracy/tracy-chronology.htm
When your butts in a bind, you do what you have to do.
Indeed. Very desperate times call for desperate measures. Easy for some to pontificate from the comfort of a non-war zone.
And 'Pontiffs' we got!!
AeroExplorer.com sucks.
I keep an "unencumbered" copy of the Opera browser on my computer, and use it for AeroExplorer ... works good as a "workaround"!
Indeed! They didn't like my adblocker, and kicked me out!