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A tiny bit misleading really: it's only the "first" and "groundbreaking" to Troll airfield, not Antarctica as a whole. An A340 which is longer, wider and heavi
by pixelesque 3y ago
A tiny bit misleading really: it's only the "first" and "groundbreaking" to Troll airfield, not Antarctica as a whole.
An A340 which is longer, wider and heavier than the 787-9 has been flying down for at least two years now, but to a different airstrip.
The A340 can carry more passengers than the 787-9, and ironically the 787-9 in two-class configuration can only actually seat 290 people.
- hilux 3y ago"ironically"? What am I missing?
- criddell 3y agoIt’s like rain on your wedding day.
- tycho-newman 3y agoOr like too much air in a balloon.
- hinkley 3y agoYou don’t want planes breaking ground in Antarctica. This would generally be very bad news.
- qup 3y agowhat do you mean?
- creativenolo 3y ago“A tiny bit misleading” This is Sky News’ bread and butter.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoDon't forget: it's also their Nutella and Marmite.
- chinathrow 3y agoIt is a first as in the first 787 has landed in antarctica. What is not clear about this?
- idbehold 3y agoIt's not clear in the same way as if the title had been: "pilot idbehold lands plane carrying 300 passengers in Antarctica in world first" People are assuming the "world first" to apply to everything after "pilot idbehold", not exclusively to it.
- signatoremo 3y agoThat’s the issue with only reading the title (a bad one admittedly). It’s stated clearly by the airline in the article: "A historic moment for Norse," the airline said. "The first ever B787 Dreamliner to land in Antarctica! Many kinds of aircraft have landed in Antartica, the largest of them being C5 Galaxy: https://nara.getarchive.net/amp/media/a-c-5b-galaxy-aircraft-lands-on-the-ice-runway-near-mcmurdo-station-during-59e595 https://nara.getarchive.net/amp/media/a-c-5b-galaxy-aircraft...