They Landed A GIANT Plane On A TINY Runway | US Airforce C17

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This is the story of the A C17 from the 437th airlift wing. The C17 is a massive beast, it can carry insane amounts of cargo and .. wait wait im being told that that's not the C17, and that that's a chinese y-20. This is a C17. Ugh Must have gotten my images mixed up, it's sooo weird that they look so similar. I WONDER WHY. Back to what I was saying, the C17 can carry cargo, a lot of it. During the pandemic Nato used c17s to transport 100,000 protective suits and the Indians used their C17s to transport cryogenic trucks full of oxygen from around the world. You need a lot of something sent somewhere? Chances are the C17 can do it.

But somehow this plane can operate from very short runways, runways thats dont even need to be paved, the C17 can operate on gravel strips and even snow. Ill stop now before this starts sounding like an ad for the C17.

On the 23rd of january 2012 the C17 would meet her match. The plane was to fly from Al udeid air base in Qatar to the forward operating base or FOB Shank in afghanistan with a stopover in Kuwait. When the plane was on the ground at kuwait the crew took on 111,000 pounds or 50 tons of cargo and 50,000 pounds or 22 tons of fuel. The plane left kuwait bound for Shank and the flight was normal, nothing out of the ordinary.

At 6:13 am zulu time the pilots went over their landing briefing, they went over things like threats, weather, notices etc. They planned to use runway 34R which was 6800 feet long and for this landing they'd need all of the available length of runway. But they had a problem, their landing speed was higher than their Vbo speed, the Vbo speed was the highest speed at which they could use maximum braking, if they used maximum brakes before they hit they dropped down to the Vbo speed then that could really damage the brakes. So once on the ground theyd have to slow down to their Vbo speed and then they could use max brakes, this meant that theyd need more runway. Space was already at a premium.

As they got closer they did their checklists, they'd be landing 20 knots faster than their Vbo speed and according to their calculations they'd need about 6000 feet of runway. They radioed in letting ATC know that they were planning on using the entire runway. The controller said that they could use all of the runway if needed but it would have to be at the pilots discretion, there was some equipment near the runway and ATC didn't have a clear view of that, as ATC worked to clear all of that up, the C17 began its descent from 27000 feet.

The controller was unsuccessful in moving all of the equipment near the runway, they could use the entire runway but like i said before it had to be at the discretion of the pilot. The pilots discussed this among themselves and they decided that they'd make an approach and if anything looked out of the ordinary then theyd just go around.

The giant plane lined up, ATC came on the frequency just to remind them that they couldnt see the entire runway and that using the entire runway would be at the pilot's discretion. The pilots acknowledged.

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