Summary
- Kalitta Air cargo flight from South Korea to Alaska declared an emergency landing after holding maneuvers above Anchorage.
- The Boeing 747-400F, registered as N700CK, remained on the apron for six hours before departing to Recent York JFK.
- Kalitta Air operates a fleet of 29 aircraft, primarily 747 variants and Boeing 777-200Fs.
A Kalitta Air cargo flight between South Korea and Alaska declared an emergency landing on its approach to Anchorage. The Boeing 747-400F had already departed Seoul late before its trip to Alaska turned sour.
K4703 departed Seoul Incheon International Airport (ICN) at 00:11 on September twenty ninth, some 24 minutes behind its scheduled departure time of 23:45 for September twenty eighth. The flight headed in its usual North Easterly direction sure for Anchorages Ted Stevens International (ANC).
From here, it stays unclear what the problem was, however the aircraft remained on the apron at ANC for six hours before withdrawing K4703 to Recent York JFK at 20:15.
N700CK
The aircraft in query, a Boeing 747-400F, first took flight in August 1997, some 26 years ago, and is a workhorse for the carrier. It was first deployed to Cargolux with registration LX-KCV from 1997 to August 2013 after which transferred to Miami-based SkyLease Cargo as N901AR from 2013 to 2015. Kalitta Air took possession of the aircraft on September sixteenth, 2015, where it was registered as N700CK.
Based on data retrieved from ch-Aviation, the aircraft is powered by General Electric CF6 Engines (CF6-80C2B1F) and is leased to Kalitta from the Japanese ITOCHU Corporation, a general trading and investment firm that also holds brands similar to Dole and Century 21 Real Estate.
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Kalitta is a cargo airline based in Anchorage, Leipzig/Halle, Cincinnati, Hong Kong, Recent York–JFK, and Los Angeles. It was first named Connie Kalitta Services (after its founder bearing the identical name). It was renamed American International Airways in 1984 before formally changing its name to Kalitta Air in 2000. The airline’s headquarters is in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan.
29 aircraft in motion
With 26 energetic and three stored aircraft, in keeping with ch-Aviation. The carrier operates mainly 747 variants, with currently 24 on its books, ten B747-400(BCF) with a median age of 31.5 years, one B747-400ERF with registration N782CK at 14.4 years old, and 13 B747-400FSCD with tenures of around 21.9 years of age.
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Five Boeing 777-200F make up the remainder of the carrier’s fleet, much younger than the queen of the skies, with an age of around 5.4 years.
Sources: ch-Aviation, Aviation Source News, Flightradar24