Soviet behemoth lands at Istanbul to deliver fuel

The six-engine Russian monster, known as the Mryia, landed at 06.10 (local time) on Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport and delivered 104 tones of fuel in two hours. Mryia, which landed at Iceland on its first stop after its departure from New York, took off for Basra at 08.45 (local time). "The destiniation is Basra. We carry seven generators to civilians," told pilot
Anatoli Moisseiev. The plane’s dimensions are mind boggling with is 18.1 meters height, 88.4 meters wing lenght. It takes up two 747 parking spaces on the ground and can lift 250 tonnes, the equivalent of 80 medium size cars.