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Originally Posted by ironmanjt
Originally Posted by
MissyH
widebody landing and taking off at DCA is extremely rare....
I have never seen or heard of one during the last 27 and 3/4 years!
About 10 yrs ago (give or take a few) a UA DC-10 diverted from IAD due to storms to land at DCA. In order to get it out, they had to completely strip the interior (seats, etc) and even then it was close.
I'm surprised that a (lightly fueled) UA DC-10 would have to be stripped in order to take off from DCA. DC-10's regularly flew in and out of LGA years ago, and LGA's runways are only about 150' longer than the take-off distance available on DCA's longest runway.