An-124 super freighter delivers machinery for U.S. vaccine fill plant

The open rear tail of a giant Russian cargo plane unloading a big crate.

A massive piece of machinery that can produce up to 30 million doses of COVID vaccine per month, and help alleviate production bottlenecks, landed Saturday at Chicago Rockford International Airport on a specialized cargo jet.

The flight was operated by Russian all-cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr Airlines, Zachary Oakley, deputy director of operations and planning at the Greater Rockford Airport Authority, confirmed. 

The vaccine filling machine and isolator were delivered to a plant being built by...

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