According to flight audio and a report from Business Inside, the “Boeing 747 climbed to about 31,000 feet when a pilot called air traffic control to say that a horse had escaped from its stall and that they needed to return to JFK.”
“We are a cargo plane with a live animal, a horse, on board the airplane. And the horse managed to escape his stall,” one of the plane’s pilots told air traffic control.
“We don’t have a problem as of flying wise, but we need to return back to New York.
We cannot get the horse back secured,” he continued.
But that wasn’t all.
In order to make a safe landing back at JFK, the plane needed to dump thousands of gallons of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean.
“Due to our weight we need to dump 20 tonnes of fuel,” a pilot told air traffic control.
How exactly the horse escaped is unclear. But it remained loose until the plane landed at JFK. The crew had requested a vet be on standby as the animal was “in difficulty,” per the audio recording.
As it turns out, horses aren’t big on the whole airplane thing. Who knew?
But that wasn’t all.
In order to make a safe landing back at JFK, the plane needed to dump thousands of gallons of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean.
“Due to our weight we need to dump 20 tonnes of fuel,” a pilot told air traffic control.
How exactly the horse escaped is unclear. But it remained loose until the plane landed at JFK. The crew had requested a vet be on standby as the animal was “in difficulty,” per the audio recording.
As it turns out, horses aren’t big on the whole airplane thing. Who knew?
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