![]() ![]() (As they were the year before and the year after.) And it’s no mystery why this has been happening: the profligate burning of fossil fuels, the very thing that US Airways was bound and determined to do despite the inconvenience presented by a melting tarmac. The temperatures in the summer of 2012 were indeed unusually hot. A spokesperson for the airline blamed the incident on “very unusual temperatures”. Someone posted a picture: “Why is my flight cancelled? Because DC is so damn hot that our plane sank four inches into the pavement.”Įventually, a larger, more powerful vehicle was brought in to tow the plane and this time it worked the plane finally took off, three hours behind schedule. The airline had hoped that without the added weight of the flight’s 35 passengers, the aircraft would be light enough to pull. The wheels were lodged so deep, in fact, that the truck that came to tow the plane away couldn’t pry it loose. There they saw something unusual: the wheels of the US Airways jet had sunk into the black pavement as if it were wet cement. ![]() ![]() They went down the stairs and gathered on the hot tarmac. A voice came over the intercom: would the passengers of Flight 3935, scheduled to depart Washington DC, for Charleston, South Carolina, kindly collect their carry-on luggage and get off the plane. ![]()
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