Plane fuselage causes traffic hold-ups on M4 in Wiltshire
An aeroplane fuselage caused tailbacks on the M4 and main roads in the West today as it travelled from south Wales to Cotswold Airport.
The Airbus A321 took up two lanes of the motorway on its two-day journey to the ‘plane graveyard’ on the Wiltshire-Gloucestershire border.
Measuring 20ft wide, 16ft high and 151ft long, it weighs 58 tonnes, it crossed the Severn on Saturday and today continued across Wiltshire on the M4, before heading north along the A417 to the east of Swindon to…