Wild photo: American Airlines plane lifted over highway
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Harriet Baskas
Take a good look at this photo of the MD-80 jet that American Airlines recently donated to the George T. Baker Aviation School in Miami. The school is just across the highway from Miami International Airport, but they couldn’t just fly the plane over. So the airline partnered with the Odebrecht construction and engineering company to move the 39-ton plane from the airport to the aviation school. They used a 500-ton crane equipped with a 400-foot telescoping boom.
The photo was sent to me by Miami International Airport and was taken by Joe Pries whose website is filled with really great aviation photos.
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