Allan9 wrote: >Try this. Cleveland Plain Dealer Article from today > >http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/10683 >7388913491.xml > According to the article, the cargo was going to Austintown, which is near Youngstown. If the big pieces were going to Youngstown, why not just fly into YNG, whose main runway is the same size as CLE's? Also from the article >Other fun facts: The plane has two huge ridges between the wings, effectively a luggage rack like the >ones a lot of Third World buses have. Also, it has to go where it goes on one 200,000-gallon tank of >fuel. It cannot be refueled in the air, which remains oddly reassuring, because this is a former Soviet >aircraft and who knows just how former. Yeah, but that "luggage" was supposed to be Buran. It doesn't hold anything otherwise. And who cares if it can't be refuelled in the air? It can always do things like, uh, land and pick up more fuel. There's also something about AF1 being a "stretch 747," which is a quote from the Airport Commissioner. Matthew :)