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Old Jan 30, 2020, 10:51 am
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Originally Posted by 13901
Actually, this one might be a bit more interesting than a normal tech issue; an Engineering pal of mine said that, yesterday, a 787 was being towed into the TE stands (that big parking lot for planes you can see when taking off or landing on the southern runway) and bang where the bottleneck is between the Casualty hangar and Technical Block E the tug that was towing it broke down. A 380 was being towed out and got caught in the traffic jam for a while so it got late back to T5. It could be the bird that was going to LAX?
But a 4 hour traffic jam?
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