Tail-Heavy Cargo Plane at L.A. Tips

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SOURCE: Yahoo
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Tail-Heavy Cargo Plane at L.A. Tips

LOS ANGELES - A cargo plane being unloaded at Los Angeles International
Airport became unbalanced and tipped onto its rear wheels Thursday,
stranding seven workers 40 feet above ground.


"As soon as they took whatever it was out of the back of the plane, the
weight shifted and the plane just went back on its tail," said Bob
Collis, a fire spokesman.

The uninjured workers were rescued after about an hour by firefighters
using a ladder truck, he said. Television footage showed a conveyor belt
crushed under the plane's tail.

The accident involving the MD-11 World Airways cargo plane happened
around 3:15 a.m. at the airport's cargo complex, away from regular
airport traffic.

Collis said the same thing happened to another MD-11 in January 2002 in
Sydney, Australia.

Airport officials may have to use a crane to right the plane, Collis said.

A message left at the Peachtree City, Ga.-based World Airways was not
immediately returned Thursday.

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