Watch an extreme windstorm lift up a parked Boeing 747

5/27/2012

This plane had a little wind beneath its wings, so to speak, on Wednesday when 70+ mile per hour gusts stormed a boneyard in Mojave, Calif., lifting the gigantic Boeing 747 off the ground and offering it one last dance in the air before metal scrappers send it to its final resting place. In the video you can see the former passenger aircraft, which is tail-heavy because its engines were removed, bobbing around in the wind, its front wheels rising at a sharp angle as the nose sways back and forth. Mojave occasionally receives extreme windstorms due to its low pressure zone, but we're betting they haven't seen this before.

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