Forced landing of the world"s longest aircraft during a flight test

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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The longest aircraft in the world, Airlander 10, was damaged after a forced landing, on Wednesday, during its second test.

The plane, which has a length of 92 meters and worth 29 million euros, crash-landed at the Cardington airfield, Bedfordshire County, located in the northern outskirts of the capital of Great Britain, London.

“The incident did not occur in the air, but when landing,” the Hybrid Air Vehicles Company transmitted, adding that no one was hurt.

Airlander 10, which works with helium and can carry 48 people, takes off and lands vertically. The plane, which has a range of flight of two weeks, can take off on land in any area, including on water or ice.

It has a length of 92 m, surpassing any airliner. There is nothing of its class today.

The enormous prototype uses helium to lift into the air, where it can remain for five days with men at board or two weeks without anyone on board, according to the builder of the Hybrid Air Vehicles Company, which wants to promote the aircraft for missions ranging from surveillance to transport and not only.

Airlander has it’s origin in a contract awarded by the US Army in search of new means of surveillance for a program named Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle.

A prototype of the airship had made its first flight in 2012 but the Pentagon canceled the project because of technical difficulties and budgetary restrictions. Being a secret project, it could not be photographed four years ago.