World’s biggest cargo plane lands in Prague

The world’s biggest cargo plane – Antonov An -225 – landed at Vaclav Havel Airport on Tuesday, attracting a crowd of onlookers. The plane is to transport a 135 ton generator to Australia on Thursday. The Soviet-designed six-motor cargo plane can carry up to 640 tons of load. It is the longest and heaviest aircraft in the world. The Antonov only made one previous unscheduled landing in Prague, in 1989, when it had technical problems. At the time it was the plane’s second landing outside Soviet territory.