<story><title>Logistics challenges of saving Air India’s diverted 777 in Russia</title><url>https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/air-india-russia-diversion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>In the early 1960s, a 707 landing at Heathrow mistook a nearby WW2 airfield for Heathrow(!). How the pilot[1] got the 707 stopped on that short field is a miracle. But the problem was getting it off the ground again, the runway was too short.&lt;p&gt;They stripped everything out of the aircraft - seats, galleys, everything. Then put in just enough gas to hop over the hedges to Heathrow. They barely made it.&lt;p&gt;[1] The pilot was cashiered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>version_five</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t know what cashiered meant.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Cashiering (or degradation ceremony), generally within military forces, is a ritual dismissal of an individual from some position of responsibility for a breach of discipline.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cashiering&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Cashiering&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Logistics challenges of saving Air India’s diverted 777 in Russia</title><url>https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/air-india-russia-diversion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>In the early 1960s, a 707 landing at Heathrow mistook a nearby WW2 airfield for Heathrow(!). How the pilot[1] got the 707 stopped on that short field is a miracle. But the problem was getting it off the ground again, the runway was too short.&lt;p&gt;They stripped everything out of the aircraft - seats, galleys, everything. Then put in just enough gas to hop over the hedges to Heathrow. They barely made it.&lt;p&gt;[1] The pilot was cashiered.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timthorn</author><text>Some more detail: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simpleflying.com&amp;#x2F;pan-am-707-raf-northolt&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;simpleflying.com&amp;#x2F;pan-am-707-raf-northolt&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>