Heavy snow causes jet to pull stationary wheelie at airport - jet wheelie.jpg

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RENO, Nev. — An airport official says an overnight accumulation of heavy, wet
snow caused a rear-engine jet parked at a Lake Tahoe-area airport to do a tail
stand before mechanics returned it to its parked position.

Truckee Tahoe Airport official Marc Lamb took photos. He tells The Associated
Press that most of the 20 inches (51 centimeters) of dense snow that caused the
Wednesday morning spectacle melted by Thursday.

No one was injured and the Cessna Citation X aircraft was not damaged by the
heavy snow that locals dub "Sierra cement."

Lamb says other aircraft were moved before the storm, but the Cessna parked
outside for maintenance was too large for hangars at the airport northwest of
Lake Tahoe.

The National Weather Service has posted another winter storm warning in the area
until Friday afternoon.



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