A PLANE powered by the sun has landed in Oman after the first leg of its epic bid to become the first solar-powered plane to fly around the world, in a test of its pilots’ endurance.
The Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Muscat after nightfall, 13 hours and two minutes after taking off from Abu Dhabi.
On a pitch-black evening, only a line of white-and-blue lights appeared to approach the runway as Si2 touched down.
Pilot Andre Borschberg was at the controls on the 400-km (215 nautical mile) trip.
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