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World's largest cargo plane lands in India

Xinhua, May 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

The world's largest cargo plane, Antonov AN-225 Mriya, arrived in India from Turkmenistan early Friday morning.

Antonov AN-225 Mriya, known as the Dream, landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.

Local TV channels beamed live footage of the landing of the aircraft in India, which was designed by the erstwhile Soviet Union's Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980s.

The wide body aircraft is powered by six turbofan engines and is the longest and heaviest airplane ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes, a statement said.

It has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service, the statement said, adding the plane is specially built to undertake transcontinental route airlifting load between 180-230 tonnes. Endit