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Airplane stuck at overhead pedestrian bridge

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http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNew...ory_290221.html

 

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AN AIRPLANE mounted on a trailer was stranded on the Tampines Expressway (TPE) for more than an hour early yesterday morning, unable to pass under an overhead pedestrian bridge.

 

The Boeing 737-300, with its wings and nose removed, was being moved from Seletar Airport to the airport emergency services training ground of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) in Upper Changi Road, where it will be used for rescue and fire fighting training.

 

The trailer, bearing its gigantic cargo, was trundling down the extreme left lane of the expressway at about 1am when it came to the bridge. It had to slow down and stop.

 

Tampines resident Jackie Ong, 24, who lives in Block 492C in Tampines Street 45, just off the highway, said: 'The trailer moved back and forth but it wasn't able to pass under the bridge with the plane on it.'

 

Finally, some air was let out of trailer's tyres to lower its height. The trailer then passed under the bridge, but on the extreme right lane, where the bridge is slightly higher off the ground than at other sections. All three lanes of the affected section of the TPE had to be closed during this manoeuvre, which stranded about 15 cars.

 

A CAAS spokesman said hiccups are anticipated along the way when planes are being transported, but could not say whether the problem for this particular trip had been anticipated. She added that no damage was caused to the overhead pedestrian bridge, the trailer or the aircraft.

 

Mr Ong, a director of a food and beverage company, said he was at first worried that the plane might not be cleared out of the way by the morning rush hour.

 

The laden trailer was accompanied by a convoy of motorbike-mounted security officers, in line with regulations which require vehicles taller than 4.5m to be escorted by police en route.

 

The driver of a vehicle which collides into a building or structure can be fined up to $5,000 and jailed up to two years.

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Finally, some air was let out of trailer's tyres to lower its height. The trailer then passed under the bridge

 

The stuff of legends. Normally it will be suggested by a small child, after all other solutions didn't work.

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Those 'monster movers' featured on Nat Geo will probably shift the bridge elsewhere to allow safe passage of the fuselage :)

Btw nice to read "no damage" to the plane, but it is already scrapped - does it really matter ? :)

Edited by BC Tam

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