Type Becomes Largest Aircraft to Land at Iconic Airport
An Embraer aircraft departed the Farnborough Airshow and proceeded to London’s London City Airport (LCY) where it landed without incident. The story seems an utter bore and deserving of no mention whatsoever until one takes into account the facts that London City Airport’s runway is a scant 4,947-feet long, and the aircraft in question was a 135,000-pound, 146-seat, E195-E2—the largest of Embraer’s E-Jet family of twin-engine, narrow-body airliners.