Unusual 727 landing at Anchorage's Merrill Field draws a crowd

 

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On any given day, standing in the parking lot of Northway Mall near downtown Anchorage, passersby can stop and see small planes -- Cessnas, Supercubs, Navajos and others -- flying east to west, coming in for a landing on Merrill Field right across the street. Often, they're flying low enough to rattle nerves (and trees) just outside the fence of the municipal airfield. So when a hulking Boeing 727 cargo jet, decommissioned by FedEx and donated to the University of Alaska Anchorage's aviation maintenance program, landed at the airfield on Tuesday, folks in the Airport Heights and Mountain View neighborhoods uninformed to the landing were in for a spectacle. 

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