Originally Posted by Nightrod
Anyone know what had happened to the Atlas 742 at AMS today around 1630z?
It sure blocked rwy 06 for about 3 hours. I took a pic of it when they offloaded it on the rwy at 1930z
Blew 2 maintires by take off and damaged rwy 36L rwy and lights...dumped lots of fuel and returned to ams...landed at 1536Z on rwy 06 and blew the remaining of his maintires.....a/c offloaded on the rwy in order to reweight all the pallets and trying to put new tires on the a/c....at this stage the a/c is still blocking the rwy which will be closed tmrw the most of the day(if not the whole day) in order to repair the heavily damaged rwy..a/c N516MC...a/c had to return as flaps r damaged as well which resulted in steering problems
