Yeah, that's serious heat: plane sinks into the runway at DC. http://t.co/02x6n6vr via @imgur via @washingtonpost
— Mother of Chaos (@carolbean) July 8, 2012
Flight cancelled in DC because plane sinks 4” into melted pavement – that’s how hot it is here. http://t.co/y3PyAtrM
— Blake Patterson (@blakespot) July 8, 2012
More from The Washington Post:
Things were proceeding normally Friday evening as a US Airways flight was leaving the gate at Reagan National Airport to begin its flight to Charleston, S.C.
But the temperature reached 100 degrees in Washington on Friday and that apparently softened the airport paving enough to immobilize the airplane. The small vehicle that usually tows planes away from the gate tugged and pulled, but the plane was stuck.
“It was apparently a soft spot caused by the heat,” airline spokeswoman Michelle Mohr said, and the airplane “wouldn’t move.”
And some advice from the peanut, or Twitter, gallery.
Use concrete instead. RT @postlocal: Heat softens pavement at National Airport enough that plane gets stuck: http://t.co/TXdy7e0Y
— Mark C, austere BBQ scholar ?? (@UntraceableMC) July 8, 2012
Hot enough to fry an egg? Maybe. But it’s definitely hot enough to melt tarmac!
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