I have see one of those things (from the reverser pic) close up.

-No slats, so the wings are about 8 feet thick at the roots

-It has a hydraulic ram that extends vertically from the tail (on the ground.) The ram actually has a set of castering wheels on it to keep the plane from tipping over onto its tail-too much weight with those four engines that far back.

*The kicker was that this plane didn't even have rivets on the fuselage-not a single one! What Ivan used was a bunch of regular (not even stainless steel) screws. Phillips head. Just get some new ones at Home Depot-I guess.... I suppose no one ever told Ivan about all the inconvenient problems with dissimilar metals and such-these things were rusted so badly I doubt a single would would have screwed out without breaking. Rust streaks galore!

-Russians do know how to build STRANGE airplanes......

 

Build them yes.... brute force method in many cases...... maintenance and keeping them flying is another story.

 

Il-62 prototype 1962, first entered service 1967 and the last one was produced in 1994.

over 360K pound max takeoff
fixed drooping leading edge extension on the outer 2/3rds of wing
range approximately 5K nm

Maybe the spoilers have to be manually deployed
and just maybe, the crew is on their 1st of three bounces??

 

Hey it's an Ilyushin...anything is possible

 

He/she could have bounced the landing...

 

Yeah its okay......but the original 727 was still better I think.