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Qantas Airbus Blocks Runway

What: Qantas Airbus A380 en route from LA to Sydney
Where: New Caledonia’s La Tontouta airport
When: August 11, 2010
Why: Forced to land because of the bad weather, the plane was actually too big to turn on the runway, so it had to sit on the tarmac blocking traffic until it was towed.

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