SEATAC, Wash. — A Boeing 747 freighter overshot its designated stopping point on a runway after landing at Sea-Tac Airport on Monday afternoon, an airport representative told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.
The China Airlines plane with two or three people aboard was too close to the runway's end to make a turn after stopping, so a tug has to push the plane backward, said Terri-Ann Betancourt.
The plane went beyond a painted line on the runway but did not go off the pavement, Betancourt said.
It was a “driving” and not an in-flight problem, Betancourt said, adding that there were no injuries and no damage as a result of the incident.
Sea-Tac’s runaways are open for traffic
This is a total non-event. With the throats of the runways like they are they probably realized too late that they were passing up the last option to get off the runway.