How is such a small vehicle that connects to an airplane able to push it and direct it away from the terminal?
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That small car is the ‘pushback tug’ and weighs over 110,000 lbs, it’s large (looks small sitting in front of a huge plane) and is a heavy vehicle and can pull 75,000 lbf (remember Lb is a unit of mass while Lbf is pound-force) and an aeroplane engine has a 250,000 lbf, to compare powers. Why do they need them? because while the plane is more than capable of moving on its own, if it was to start the engines and push that close to the building and terminals it would cause damage to them as well as other plane engines that now have debris stuck in the fins.
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