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Old 25th Jul 2006, 14:47
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Originally Posted by Whaledog
Door's:
Its simple, the cargo ramp that Atlas uses is at the END of rwy14, southwest edge of the ORD airport.
And I've never heard of a heavey operator that'd land and hold short.
If you don't roll past 27L on rwy14 you'll wait forever to cross 27L on the taxiway.

27L has 6600 feet from take off position to edge of 14R so dought if the captain ever saw the 747 since they were at least 300 feet high at that point for that short of a flight to Denver. Maybe the FO saw it.
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