British Team Sets Record Pulling 183-Ton Plane
A group of famous athletes and British Airways workers set a Guinness World Record on March 6, 2020, pulling a British Airways A350 airplane over 100 meters. The plane weighed 182.9 metric tons and was pulled to support Sport Relief.
Sport Relief is a charity event that takes place every two years in the UK. Stars and athletes help raise money for poor children, people with mental health problems and others, both in the UK and abroad. The 2020 event ended on March 13, and raised almost $50 million.
The stars who took part included TV host and former gymnast Gabby Logan, fitness coach Joe Wicks, Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams, former soccer player and TV host Gary Lineker, and wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett. The team included 46 men and 46 women in total.
This wasn't the first time the airline set a world record. The previous record for the heaviest airplane pulled by a team of both men and women was set by a British Airways team on March 3, 2017. That plane weighed 180 metric tons.
And on November 23, 2018, another British charity joined British Airways to set a record for the heaviest airplane pulled by a wheelchair team. A team of 98 people in wheelchairs pulled a plane that weighed 127.6 metric tons – 67 tons more than the previous record.
