Plane pull cut from air show

Southeast Missourian

The plane pull scheduled for today was yanked from the Cape Girardeau Regional Air Festival lineup after too few teams signed up for the event.

The Area Wide United Way and Special Olympics were recruiting teams of 20 to attempt to pull a 155,000-lb. Federal Express Boeing 727 for a distance of 12 feet. The event was a fund raiser for the organizations.

Kristi Thurman, projects assistant at the regional airport, said perhaps scheduling on the same day as the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life event and a lack of understanding about the plane pull contributed to the low interest.