A second Emirates flight in less than a month has been involved in an alleged serious incident while taking off. A plane with seating capacity for as many as 427 people was speeding down the runway for departure without clearance from air traffic control, as another plane was crossing the runway.
The Milan Linate airport disaster in 2001 in which 118 people were killed when a jetliners operated by Scandanavian airline SAS crashed into a small business jet that was taxiing along the runway is similar to the one that happened today.
Two independent sources claim that a flight from the runway 30R of the airport to the one in the city of Hyderabad was lined up for departure without first getting permission from air traffic control.
The pilots of the Boeing 777-300 aircraft didn't realize that a second aircraft operated by the same airline was taxiing for departure and was crossing the same runway as the first plane was about to take off.
Air traffic controllers ordered the pilots of flight EK524 to take off, but the aircraft had already reached 130 knots of indicated airspeed before the pilots rejected the takeoff. The flight was cleared to leave 30 minutes later after taxiing back to the airfield.
The three different seating configurations of the aircraft are used on Indian routes that can carry up to 427 passengers. A smaller Economy cabin version of the aircraft has a capacity for more than 300 passengers.
Less than a month after the overran of the runway by the flight from Dubai to Washington Dulles, there was an alleged incident.
Although the aircraft continued to Washington DC, it had to be inspected on arrival after sustaining damage on departure. The event has been recorded as an incident by the U.S. National Transporation Safety Bureau.
The crew from the previous flight may have set the altitude on the Master Control Panel.
Four pilots were fired by the airline. The General Civil Aviation Authority of the United Arab Emirates oversees accident investigations.
The Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre recently named Emirates as the safest airline in the world.
The aviation community is concerned about the fact that pilots are out of practice because of the drop in travel demand. Several incidents in recent months have been attributed to out of practice pilots, although there is no evidence to suggest that this was the case in this latest incident.
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