747 plane stranded in desert after Burning Man music festival

An abandoned 747 from “The Burning Man” music festival has been stuck in the desert for 3 weeks.

The plane has drawn the attention of many volunteers who have come back to The Black Rock desert to help remove this plane off of public land and into private.

According to RGJ, volunteers had put rubber mats underneath the multi-million dollar plane to protect the desert floor but that plan didn’t work out so well.

Being that the plane is at the edge of a dry lake bed, the ground is softer, so the wheels of the plane sank into the ground and the mats had to be removed by volunteers.

Jason Bean/RGJ

It took several vehicles, a lot of digging and work to get the plane out of the sunken holes and onto the the ground again but the process might take some days.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management required the airplane to be moved on Fri afternoon.

According to The Las Vegas Journal, Ken Feldman, CEO of Big Imagination Camp says “We started this. We’re going to finish it.”

Photo credit: Jason Bean/RGJ

 

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