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Courtesy Pitkin County via Aspen Times
A Boeing 737 airplane landed at the Aspen airport on Dec. 27, 2018.The once-unthinkable happened Thursday afternoon in Aspen.
For the first time ever, a Boeing 737 airplane touched down at Aspen’s airport. And while Hunter S. Thompson may have rolled over in his grave, hardly anyone else seems to have noticed.
Those who did see it apparently liked it.
“It was so cool,” Pitkin County Commissioner Patti Clapper said Friday. “It was a great experience to at least see a plane this size come in.”
The privately owned, shorter version of the standard U.S. passenger plane landed Thursday afternoon and easily made it under the airport’s 100,000-pound weight limit, though its wingspan was just three inches under the maximum allowed at the airport, according to airport director John Kinney.
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