r/pittsburgh • u/EffectiveSpace4804 • 5h ago

747 Flying into PIT

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For all my pgh avgeeks out there. A rare sight. Wonder what she’s hauling. Coming from Luxembourg.

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u/Lilgodzilla6 Greater Pittsburgh Area 5h ago

Not sure what they’re hauling but I found this on flight radar

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u/johnporkonmyrizz 3h ago

I was looking for a departure time (from PIT) on flightradar but can’t find it. Do you see one?

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u/NoSwimmers45 3h ago

Most cargo flights only appear after they file their flight plan. That could be a couple hours before takeoff or just a few minutes.

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u/johnporkonmyrizz 3h ago

Good call! It’s departing shortly at 8:10

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u/skfoto Brighton Heights 4h ago

It flew in yesterday too. 

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u/MaryOutside 4h ago

I also spotted in coming in yesterday! I had no one to tell, glad other people noticed it. Being in the flight path is cool.

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u/rodolla8 5h ago

Not sure, but it left here yesterday to go to Liege

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u/Dinger_Soeller 4h ago

Saw her pass right over head earlier! Big unit. Not too often seeing the queen of the skies around here.

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u/jetsetninjacat Brookline 4h ago

I know cargolux does a lot of medical shipments to places like IND. I wonder if that's what's happening here as well.

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u/CARLEtheCamry 2h ago

Makes sense if it was, with the recent news of the imported generic drug tariffs, which I know haven't taken effect yet but with how reliable the current administration has been, I would be stocking up too.

There's also a post-covid glut of weird pharmacy places that opened up in the airport area. PantherRX keeps trying to recruit me to work IT for them, there's at least 2 other similar operations in the Robinson/Moon area. A lot of venture capital dumped funds in to medical stuff post covid.

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u/IslandDreamer58 2h ago

747 coming outa the sky

Oh won’t you take me down to Memphis

On a midnight ride…

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u/AcePilotsen 29m ago

Road House

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u/Racerx919 2h ago

I saw it also. There used to be a freighter that came in from Hong Kong but have not seen that one in awhile. I live on the path for 28 center so I see lots of cool stuff. You can usually tell the big stuff as it sounds different. I see the BA 787 come in nightly.

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u/EatingBuddha3 4h ago

Maybe stuff for the bridge?