The 747 rolls back to Burning Man with BLM's blessing. Organizers say they have exit plan

The 747 has landed in Black Rock City again. Last year, the controversial art installation was stuck for nearly a month on playa, leaving questions as to whether it would return this year. Without delay, it returned to the Burning Man event closure area on Sunday as event preparations are in full-swing. Volunteers moved the plane from its holding site on private ranch property to the playa, where it will remain through the duration of Burning Man, this year held from Aug. 25 to Sept. 2. The organization behind it says there's a solid departure plan for the aircraft as well. Big Imagination Foundation CEO Ken Feldman on Monday said that the Bureau of Land Management and the Burning Man Project both reviewed and approved the foundation's plans to transport the plane to the playa and remove the plane post-event. BLM officials issued a separate permit this year to the Big Imagination Foundation, though it has not posted the permit publicly. The Reno Gazette Journal sent a public records request Monday to the BLM to learn cost of the permit and conditions listed in it. The Big Imagination Foundation paid the BLM an additional performance bond that will be returned to the foundation if the foundation meets all expectations in the permit. Neither BLM officials nor Big Imagination Foundation organizers would disclose the cost of the permit or the bond. It is the only art piece at Burning Man that requires a separate BLM permit, BLM spokesman Rudy Evenson said...MORE