The Aviation Herald has the small print on a completely wild accident that occurred final night time at Belgrade Airport, which leaves so many questions.
Embraer E195 has weird takeoff from Belgrade Airport
This incident occurred on Sunday, February 18, 2024, and entails Air Serbia flight JU324, scheduled to function from Belgrade (BEG) to Dusseldorf (DUS). The flight was operated utilizing a 16-year-old Embraer E195 with the license plate OY-GDC.
This plane really belonged to Marathon Airways, a Greek constitution airline, which is at the moment working a number of plane on behalf of Air Serbia on a long run foundation (this plane even has the Air Serbia livery).
At 5:38PM native time, the plane tried to take off from runway 30L. Runway 30L is 11,483 toes (3,500 meters) lengthy, in order that’s a lot for a jet of this dimension. Nonetheless, the plane began its takeoff roll at taxiway D5, so it was doing a midfield takeoff. Taxiway D5 solely gave the plane 4,175 toes (1,273 meters) to take off.
That wasn’t sufficient runway size, so the plane ended up overrunning the runway, and never simply by just a little bit:
- The plane collided with some floor tools on the finish of the runway
- The plane then grew to become airborne 3,600 toes (1,100 meters) previous the top of the runway (!!!!!!)
- The plane then struggled to climb, and solely made it to 50 toes above floor degree 8,500 toes (2,600 meters) previous the top of the runway (!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The plane stopped its climb at 4,000 toes, burned off gasoline, after which returned to Belgrade, the place it landed round 55 minutes after departure. Luckily there have been on accidents amongst passengers.
That is an unbelievable occasion on so many ranges
The harm to this plane is nothing in need of distressing, and passengers and crew must be counting their fortunate stars that this didn’t have a really completely different ending:
- It’s not simply that there’s a tear within the fuselage, however you’ll be able to see how that is proper on the root of the wing
- The plane solely grew to become airborne 3,600 toes after the top of the runway, so think about all the extra obstacles it might have hit
- Clearly the plane additionally initially struggled to climb, because it took practically an additional mile for the plane to go from airborne to 50 toes above floor degree
I’m positive an investigation will probably be carried out, and the query comes all the way down to why the pilots determined to take off at intersection D5, giving them much less runway than the plane wanted. Did they mess up their takeoff calculations? Had been they simply confused about which intersection they have been taking off on? Midfield takeoffs aren’t in any respect unusual, however after all they have to be from an intersection that leaves sufficient room to securely get airborne.
Backside line
An Air Serbia flight operated by Marathon Airways had a weird accident, whereby the aircraft took off from an intersection that didn’t go away it with sufficient runway to really safely take off. So the plane hit floor tools previous the top of the runway, and solely began to get airborne 3,600 toes previous the top of the runway. The harm to the plane was immense, and this might have had a really completely different end result.
What do you make of this Belgrade Airport incident?
