An airplane mounted on a trailer was stranded on the Tampines Expressway for more than an hour on Monday morning, unable to pass under an overhead pedestrian bridge.

The Boeing 737-300, which weighs more than 56,000kg, or nine adult elephants, with its wings and nose removed, was being moved from Seletar Airport to the airport emergency services training ground of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) in Upper Changi Road.

The trailer, bearing its gigantic cargo, was trundling down the extreme left lane of the expressway at about 1am when it came to the bridge. It had to slow down and stop.Finally, some air was let out of the tyres of the trailer to lower its height. The trailer then passed under the bridge, where it is slightly higher off the ground than the other sections.

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