Originally Posted by
bcpr
No wonder the nose wheel's got stuck when they were attempting a turn around at one end, looking at the length/width of that strip.
You would have thought that they'd have elected to reverse pitch and backtrack the 130's up the strip in reverse as far as they could in order to take off, once they'd unloaded the Little Birds...?
Unless the whole strip was a lot softer than they expected, and it was more than the nose wheels that got bogged down?