Grand Rapids just recently had its third ever B777 diversion on July 27th 2014.
Many may not remember the first two B777 visits, though they happened on the same night.
UAL 928 a ORD-LHR flight had an inflight emergency on its climb out of Chicago and diverted to KGRR on the evening of Dec 28th, 2002. The emergency aircraft landed fine and it checked out OK by the fire crews after it landed. A second B777-200 then ferried from ORD to pick up the stranded passengers and then make up the flight to London. So for a few hours there were two B777-200's on the ramp at the same time. It had been twelve year gap from the first ones, until the most recent one.
The pictures below are all of N219UA on its departure the next afternoon...empty, ferry flight back to KORD.
This is about the 3000' mark on the 10,000' runway.
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