He was passing through Mirabel airport at the very beginning of the pandemic: this huge Ukrainian plane, the Mria (or Antonov AN-225), built in the 1980s, was destroyed by Russian airstrikes on February 27, 2022.
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“The dream never dies,” the machine’s maker posted on Twitter the day after it was destroyed. Mria means “dream” in Ukrainian.
Antonov Company announced on Twitter that the reconstruction project has already started. The company estimates its renovation cost at 500 million euros, or 680 Canadian dollars.
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A large cargo plane stopped in Quebec in May 2020 to drop off a large amount of medical equipment in the midst of COVID-19.
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It is the world’s largest cargo carrier with a length of 84 meters. It is the heaviest aircraft ever built.
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