Damage at CFB Trenton from Russian Antonov transport plane

Around midnite tonite Thursday May 10 2007, the Russian Antonov transport plane had to abort it's landing (possibly due to mechanical issues)...it couldn't land right away, and had to make a loop around...which took about an hour. When it tried to land, it knocked down about 3 to 5 car lengths of fencing on the east end of the runway at CFB Trenton, and damaged some electrical box on the runway needed for safe landing. The plane had to be re-routed to Ottawa.
It took about an hour for the MP's to realize that the fence had been knocked over and ripped apart.

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• Russian
• Antonov
• transport
• plane
• CFB
• Trenton
• damage
• fence
• MP
• cops
• smash
• ontario

[JamaicaGold1]

Well, the Atonov is a big bird, not all runways can take it... and certainly not all pilots can fly it, specially after having vodka hahahha ok that was a joke. I respect the plane and it´s designers, just that it´s so freaking massive it can´t land everywhere. It´s too unconventional, like the Concord, two big assed totally missunderstood and underestimated planes.

[spikeontario]

well the government has bought up all the farms that are north of the airbase.... hopefully with all that extra land they'll be able to takeoff/ land that big bird and leave some of the fencing. :P

[Saguanay]

Man, thats the White's Road end isn't it? Looks too close to be RCAF Road. Good thing no one was driving past right then.

[spikeontario]

yes, it was on the White's Rd end... yeah, if a car/truck had've been driving by, it would have been totalled... it was definitely a near-miss.

[Finger2212]

Whoa whoa whoa, this is ANOTHER instance where an Antonov damged Trenton???

I remember when a British crew landed one and didn't touch down soon enough and buried it in the ground at the end of the runway.

You mean to tell me this was ANOTHER one??

[spikeontario]

Yes...this happened in the night back in May of this year....thats what happens when u have too much vodka before flying :P

[Martins219]

Ohhh geeezz....Quinte West OPP and Quinte West Fire Dept. mixing with the MP's and CFB Trenton Fire Service...a recipe in itself for a disaster. Nevermind the Antanov ripping out a section of chain link.....

[Rahkayelle]

@Martins219 HEEHEE! My late-father was a mechanic for CFB Trenton and he used to call the MP's "meat heads."

[Rahkayelle]

@Saguanay I was just thinking that...I think it is White's Road.

[A225HVY]

@Finger2212

Brit crews have NEVER flown the AN124 or AN225!! All crews are Ukrainian or Russian!

[1ironneck]

the runway at cfb trenton is 1.5 miles long and a c-5 dosen't have a promblem land at trenton and there is a 10 feet differnce in between aircraft and i hear the pilot was drinking and the surface was wet

[answerthedoor100]

my dad was working at MAMS when this happenened

[ndvfdff33]

Goose Bay does have a big ramp actually. I lived there for a few years when it was a good size base. So no something that I already knew isn't going to help me sleep better. But thanks for trying.

I have to ask what does the size of the ramp have to do with our discussion about size of the runways?

[Martins219]

I know that Goose Bay has the biggest ramp!!!! I bet your gonna sleep better now knowing that.

[flightrulez]

Was in A train going near the base when that happened.