Plane Sinks Into Hot Asphalt at Reagan Airport

Posted by in Blog, Featured, News on July 8, 2012 10:30 am / 1 comment

How hot has it been in Washington, D.C.? Apparently hot enough for a U.S. Airways plane to sink into the asphalt at Reagan. From WaPo:

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:

I guess that’s an unforseeable delay, right?

 
 

1 Comments

  1. Karin says:
    July 8, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    No matter what people think about Global Warming, if we keep surpassing all-time temperature records or continue to have 7+ days of 96 degrees or higher multiple times each summer, we will have to rethink what kind of materials we use for paving. It’ll be a BIG infrastructure program to investigate & replace roadways with materials that can endure these long heat waves and/or the freak blizzards we’ve seen these past 10 years!

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