Heat Wave causes plane to get stuck

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Is it good or bad this is not too surprising to me?

A U.S. Airways flight at Reagan National Airport bound for Charleston, S.C. was delayed on Friday after it got stuck in a soft spot on the tarmac, apparently caused by extremely high temperatures, the The Washington Post reports.

According to Michelle Mohr, a U.S. Airways spokesperson, the 50-seat regional jet got stuck when the electric tug cart was unable to push it from the gate because the jet's wheels had sunk into the tarmac.

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In an effort to reduce the weight of the plane and free it, the luggage was unloaded and the 35 passengers and 3 crew members deplaned, Mohr said. But that still didn't work, and it wasn't until crews brought in a cart normally used on a much larger aircraft that the plane was freed and able to get on its way.

The flight was delayed for about three hours.

A photo posted to the social news site Reddit that is purported to show the plane's wheels sunken has been viewed nearly 850,000 times. Mohr confirmed to The Huffington Post that the aircraft's registration number in the picture matches the airline that got stuck on Friday.

Mohr told HuffPost that in her more than six years with U.S. Airways, this is the first time she's heard of something like this happening.

"It was a pretty unusual event," she said, "but we're looking at some pretty unusual temperatures."

Indeed, Bloomberg reports that more than 2,400 high-temperature records were broken in the U.S. over the past 11 days.

The temperature at Reagan National reached a high of 98 on Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

The airport wasn't the only part of the Washington, D.C.-area infrastructure feeling the effects of the heat. A "heat kink" brought on by excessive temperatures is being blamed for the Friday derailment of three Metro cars.

[IanKennedy]

Wow, that's impressive. We had 45 degrees at the weekend, it's a shame it was the angle the rain was falling at.

[IanKennedy]

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[RK_Striker_JK_5]

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Of course that's fake! Godzilla is up here in New Hampshire.

[Nutso]

So you might say, the plane was in a sticky situation.

[Griffin]

So you might say, the plane was in a sticky situation.

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YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

And,,, Griffin wins round one!

[Praeothmin]

So you might say, the plane was in a sticky situation.

It's what caused the US Airways stock value to sink...

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

The heat going on around here makes me wonder how often this problem occurs, actually.

[Mikey]

All I know is that my daughter has had two games and three practices cancelled, and ASA rules don't disallow playing until the heat index is over 94 degrees F.

The problem with heat up Striker's way is that nobody's prepared. One summer I was in Stowe, Vermont and we had a heat wave averaging over 90 - 92 F daily. In Stowe, roughly 5% of the buildings are air-conditioned because it's so rarely needed.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Yeah. A snowstorm? Ten minutes late to work. This heat? Turn us over. We're done on this side.