STILLWATER, Okla. — Stillwater Regional Airport suffered “important” airfield injury after an unauthorized navy plane landed on the airport’s runway.
A U.S. Airforce C-17 Globe Grasp plane landed on the airport round midday on Sunday, carrying the U.S. Air Power ladies’s basketball workforce to Stillwater to play towards Oklahoma State College.
In line with Stillwater airport officers, all constitution flights are “required to obtain permission” earlier than arriving to make sure security rules, and so the airport can accommodate all wants. They are saying the navy plane didn’t request or was granted permission to reach on the airport.
In October, the U.S. Air Power Baseball Staff beforehand requested to land on the airport with the identical plane sort and was denied resulting from weight limits.
The airport’s printed most weight capability is round 310,000 kilos, and the C-17 is round…