Kalitta Air cargo flight from South Korea to Alaska declared an emergency landing after holding maneuvers above Anchorage.
The Boeing 747-400F, registered as N700CK, remained on the apron for six hours before departing to New York JFK.
Kalitta Air operates a fleet of 29 aircraft, primarily 747 variants and Boeing 777-200Fs.
K4703 departed Seoul Incheon International Airport (ICN) at 00:11 on September 29th, some 24 minutes behind its scheduled departure time of 23:45 for September 28th. The flight headed in its usual North Easterly direction bound for Anchorages Ted Stevens International (ANC).
Estimated to arrive in ANC at 14:48, the aircraft appeared to have an uneventful journey across the Bering Sea before descending into Anchorage, where the aircraft seemed to complete a series of holding maneuvers before declaring an emergency, using the squawking code 7700.
