Boeing 747 plane forced to return after horse escapes while airborne
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A Boeing 747 cargo plane forced to turn around after a horse escaped from its stall and caused chaos as the plane cruised at 30,000ft (9,144m)
A Boeing 747 cargo plane forced to turn around after a horse escaped from its stall and caused chaos as the plane cruised at 30,000ft (9,144m).
The plane was headed to Belgium from New York but did a U-turn roughly 90 minutes after its departure when the animal got loose.
Air traffic control audio recorded the pilot saying: “We have a live animal, a horse, on board the airplane. The horse managed to escape.”
“We cannot get the horse back secured.”
The pilot flying Air Atlanta Icelandic flight 4592 told air traffic control the plane was fine but that the horse on the loose was the concern.
He then requested a veterinarian meet the aircraft once it landed back at John F Kennedy International Airport.
As the plane made its way back during the incident last Thursday, the pilot said he needed to dump 20 tonnes of fuel, “east of Nantucket”, a popular enclave for the rich near Massachusetts.
The Boeing plane had to dump the fuel due to the plane’s weight.
It remains unclear how the horse Houdini-ed its way out, but it was unrestrained when the plane landed at the airport.
“Do you require assistance?” air traffic control asked the pilot after the plane arrived.
“On the ground, negative” the pilot replied. “On the ramp, yes. We have a horse in problem, in difficulty.”
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The Boeing plane took off later in the same day and successfully arrived at Liege Airport on Friday morning, according to FlightRadar24.
A representative from Air Atlanta Icelandic told CNN that the information in the “You Can See ATC” video is correct.
Turbulence struck and the horse jumped
The horse became spooked and jumped halfway over the high front barrier of the stall and became hung up, with his front legs on one side of the barrier and his hind legs trapped on the inside of the stall.
“The horse jumped and managed to get its two front legs over the (front) barrier and then got jammed,” Cuticelli said. “It’s only the second time in all the years I’ve been doing this that I’ve ever seen that happen. And we do thousands of horses a year. A very unfortunate event — but that horse was spooked.”
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