Cessna Citation V (N560RK)

This Citation crew was hard at work on Thanksgiving Day. Airport activity was almost done and this airplane was the last one taking off just before sunset on runway 18L from Charlotte, North Carolina USA. Almost all of the commercial departures including the US Airways Rio de Janeiro flight had already departed. Lufthansa was in and getting ready for the 5:30 pm night flight across the dark North Atlantic to Munich.