Boeing 747 takes off at Whitehorse, Yukon

A cargo fire warning came on while they were en route from JFK to ANC, and Whitehorse was the closest airport. Murray Lundberg took this video of this takeoff of a fairly large aeroplane from a fairly small airport. The first 10 minutes show the prior plane taking off, and the 747 taxiing into position, including control tower radio chatter. There were quite a lot of spectators, and at one point earlier in the vid the pilot comes on the radio to tell the control tower "tell them to take lots of photos" :)

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An Air North Hawker Siddeley 748 takes off, followed by a Boeing 747 - conversations between the pilot and tower can be heard. This was the first 747 in Whitehorse since two Korean Air 747s were forced to land here on 9/11, and as you'll hear at the end of this video, it blew concrete right off the runway.

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chingalerasays...

Whoa! Tarmac removal in Whitehorse, biggest news all summer there huh? In Pagosa Springs, Co. their airport has a 100' wide by 8000' long air strip and once I watched a C-130 Hercules on approach headed down. Teensy mountain resort town with mostly private small jets landing daily....quite a sight to see one of the largest planes ever coming-in low in the middle of nowhere!

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