Originally Posted by
bernardd
The pictures all clearly show a 747-400 with its nose wheel in the grass, though it's quite possible the journalists are confused between the number of people of board versus the number of passengers. Whatever, it sounds a lot!
As I said earlier! Seat Guru shows the aircraft as having capacity for 474 passengers which would leave 17 Crew if the total number is correct. Doesn't sound incomprehensible to me...