2023-11-15 05:00:00
A horse was able to free itself from its transport box during the flight. Therefore, the Air Atlanta Icelandic cockpit crew had to land immediately. Because escaped animals can have dire consequences.
Air Atlanta Icelandic is best known for an order from 2016. At that time, the cargo airline provided the Boeing 747 with which the heavy metal band Iron Maiden completed their world tour. The customers are not always so prominent, but sometimes just as wild and lively, as was shown on Thursday (November 9th).
There was, among other things, a horse on board the Boeing 747-400 F that day. It was supposed to have been flown from New York-JFK to Liège along with the rest of the cargo on flight CC4592. But it didn’t come to Belgium.
Escaped the box
Because obviously the animal didn’t like it at all in the jumbo jet. Shortly following takeoff, the Air Atlanta Icelandic crew reported to American air traffic control. «We are a cargo plane. “We have a live animal… a horse on board,” she radioed. And then: “The horse managed to escape from its box.”
The radio pilot continued that they had no problems controlling the aircraft. Nevertheless, he requested to return to New York. “We can’t secure the horse,” he explained.
Escaped crocodile caused crash
An escaped animal on board can certainly lead to problems. A horse can weigh 800 kilograms – and shifting such a heavy load can be uncomfortable. In addition, the startled animal might damage things on board. However, Air Atlanta Icelandic’s Boeing 747 ended up landing back in New York without any problems.
Things don’t always go so well. In 2010, a passenger in the Democratic Republic of Congo smuggled a crocodile on board in a bag. The animal freed itself in flight. All passengers then ran towards the cockpit. The resulting shift in the aircraft’s center of gravity resulted in a loss of control. The Let L-410 crashed, 20 passengers died, only one survived.
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