Largest aircraft in the world
The world's largest aircraft is on it's way to Shannon Airport.
The Ukraine-registered Antonov AN-225 has a wingspan of 88 meters - the same as the width of the pitch at Croke Park.
It's delivering a cargo of PPE, and took off from Baku in Azerbaijan this morning.
Shannon has the longest runway in the country, and is therefore the only airport suitable for the aircraft to land.
WATCH 🎥 the @AntonovCompany #AN225 touch down at @ShannonAirport ✈️😀 pic.twitter.com/g3n3tAxeHe
— Shannon Airport (@ShannonAirport) June 10, 2020
The Antonov An-225 is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft, which was originally designed by the then Soviet Union's Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980s.
It is the only flying plane of its kind and longest and heaviest plane ever built.
Powered by six engines, it is able to take off with a maximum weight of 640 tons.
It stands over six storeys high on 32 wheels.
