An eTN readers in Wichita reported Wednesday night a massive cargo plane had landed at Jabara Kansas. Jabara is a small private airport (about a mile from me). Runway is a short. No idea how this happened, lol!
Colonel James Jabara Airport is a public airport located nine miles northeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.
A Boeing jet is sitting on the and may be stuck there for awhile.
Elizabeth Cory with the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington tells local KAKE News a Boeing 747 LCF Dreamlifter landed at Jabara around 10:20 Wednesday night. Statements from the city of Wichtia confirm the cargo plane was heading for McConnell Air Force Base.
It’s not clear if the jet landed at Jabara by mistake, or for some other reason. Boeing is sending a tug to Jabara Airport to turn around the jet. But the tug can only travel ten miles per hour, so the process may take several hours.
The Boeing Dreamlifter is too large for the Jabara runway. It also may be too big for takeoff from Jabara’s 6,100-foot runway.
The jet is owned Atlas Air of Purchase, New York, and had a two-person crew.
Wichita emergency crews were not sent to the airport.
