Takeoff
1) Phase of flight: From the application of takeoff power, through rotation and to an altitude of 35 feet above runway elevation.
2) Sub phase of the takeoff phase of flight: From the application of takeoff power, through rotation and to an altitude of 35 feet above runway elevation or until gear up selection, whichever comes first.
On 18 September 2018, Air Arabia Airbus A320 Aircraft, registration A6-ANV, was scheduled to operate commercial flight Air Arabia flight ABY111 from Sharjah International Airport (OMSJ), the United Arab Emirates, to Salalah International Airport (OOSA), Sultanate of...
Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed shortly after takeoff from Ika airport, Iran. The airplane, was arriving from Kyiv Boryspyl INTL airport in Tehran Imam Khomeini INTL, and from there to Ika airport, Iran. After disembarking 58 passengers and...
On 19 December 2021, Emirates flight EK231 operated with a Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) Aircraft, registration A6-EQI, departed from Dubai International Airport (OMDB), the United Arab Emirates, for Washington Dulles International Airport (KIAD), the United...
On 06.11.2014, Spicejet flight SG622 operated with a Boeing B737-800 aircraft registered VT-SGK was involved in an accident at Surat while taking off to operate scheduled flight to Delhi. The flight was under the command of an ATPL holder; the First Officer was a CPL...
On 15 Oct 2015, a Boeing 747-300, registered EP-MNE was operating Mahan Air flight IRM1095 from Mehrabad International Airport to Bandar Abbas airport within IR of IRAN territory. Mahan Air flight IRM1095 was carrying 19 flight crew and 422 passengers. The aircraft...
DAT Danish Air Transport flight DX171 was an IFR domestic passenger flight from EKKA to Copenhagen Kastrup (EKCH).4 crewmembers and 65 passengers were onboard.During the pre-flight planning phase, the flight crew experienced difficulties with the combination of:...
Jet Airways flight 9W2374 was a scheduled flight on December 27th 2016 from Goa, India to Mumbai, operated with a Boeing B737-800 aircraft. The flight was under the command of an ALTP holder with a CPL holder acting as First Officer. In addition to the cockpit crew,...
TAROM flight ROT236 took off from Budapest , Hungary on March 16th 2016 and was operated with an ATR72-200 (reg. YR-ATI). During takeoff , following the retraction of the landing gear, the fire alarm system of the engine No 2 was activated. The pilots of Tarom flight...
Aeroperu flight PL603 was operated by Aeroperu with a Boeing B757-200 (N52AW and took off at 05:42 UTC on 2 October 1996 from Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru bound to Santiago de Chile. When Aeroperu flight PL603 took off and reached speed V2 + 10,...
Star Jet UAE flight OA202 was a flight operated by Star Jet UAE on behalf (chartered by) of Olympic Airlines. The flight was operated with a Lockheed Tristar L1011-385-3 registered A6-BSM. The airplane arrived at 11h10 at the ramp at Terminal 1 at Paris Charles de...
On 21st June 2017, Go Airlines flight G8338 , operated with an Airbus A320-214 (reg VT-GOS) was involved in Air Turn Back incident due to Bird Strike shortly after takeoff from Delhi, India. During take-off roll on Runway 09 at around 115 knots IAS, Go Airlines flight...
American Airlines flight AA383 , from Chicago O'Hare to Miami, FL , operated with a Boeing B767-300 (N-345AN) stopped on the runway during takeoff roll, caught fire and evacuated the passengers. American Airlines flight AA383 had 161 passengers and 9 crew on board,...
On 30 May 2007, at about 0555 hours local time, the pilot of an Airbus A340 Gulf Air - Airbus A340 A40-LH , while taking off from Runway 20C at Singapore Changi Airport, had to apply TOGA (Take-off Go Around) power and rotate abruptly at a high rate to expedite the...
The Thomas Cook Airlines flight TCX1638 was on a scheduled fight from London Gatwick Airport to Hurghada Airport, Egypt. During the takeoff run, at a reported 70 kt, the right wing slide advisory message appeared on the Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System...
Map Executive Flight Service flight KK7634 was operated with an MD 83 aircraft that was scheduled to perform a charter flight to Antalya, Turkey : there were 169 passengers and six crew members on board. At take off, which was made from runway 30, the aircraft became...
The Virgin Atlantic flight VS76 was on a scheduled fight from Orlando Airport, USA to Manchester International Airport, UK. The fight crew comprised three pilots: the aircraft commander and two Senior First Officers. All three pilots were present on the fight deck for...
British Airways flight BA2156 was operating a scheduled service from VC Bird International Airport, Antigua (ANU), West Indies to Robert L Bradshaw International Airport, St Kitts (SKB), West Indies and return. The sector from ANU to SKB was uneventful. On arrival at...
The Boeing B737 registered G-OBMP and operated by BMIBaby departed from Runway (RWY) 09 at EIKN at 14.20 hrs on a scheduled passenger flight to Manchester, U.K. (EGCC). The First Officer was the Pilot Flying. The Commander, who was the Pilot Monitoring, reported to...
Crossair flight CRX498 took off on 10 January 2000, at 16:54:10 UTC, in darkness, on runway 28 of Zurich airport : the Saab 340B aircraft of the Crossair airline company, registered HB-AKK, began its scheduled flight CRX498 to Dresden. Two minutes and 17 seconds...
KLM flight KL1369 , operated with a Boeing B737 (registration PH-BDP), took off at 20.30 hours in the evening of 10 February 2010. It was dark at the time, with occasional light snowfall. KLM flight KL1369 was flown by a pilot in command and a first officer. Prior to...
Channel Express Fokker F27 G-CEXF was operating its fourth sector of the morning, the first two sectors having been operated by a different crew. Prior to the first sector, the commander noted that the aircraft was experiencing a notable low frequency vibration, felt...
On April 29, 2013, about 1527 local time, a Boeing 747-400BCF, N-949CA, operated by National Air Cargo, Inc., dba National Airlines flight ISAF95AQ , crashed shortly after takeoff from Bagram Air Base, Bagram, Afghanistan. All seven crewmembers of National Airlines...
Air Berlin flight AB6777 was a Boeing 737-800 (B738) scheduled for a flight from Nürnberg (EDDN) to Düsseldorf (EDDL); departure time 2030 hrs. On board were six crew members and 125 passengers. Take-off run occurred with one hour delay at which the airplane veered to...
Air Florida flight QH90 was a scheduled flight on January 13, 1982 to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. There were 74 passengers, including 3 infants, and 5 crewmembers on board. The flight’s scheduled departure time was...
SITA AIR flight ST601 was a Dornier 228 aircraft, registration 9N-AHA, planned to operate a flight from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Kathmandu, to Tensing/Hillary Airport, Lukla with 16 passengers and 3 crews. The Commander of SITA AIR flight ST601 was the...
On October 31, 2000, at 2317 Taipei local time3 (1517 UTC), Singapore Airlines flight SQ006, a Boeing 747-400 aircraft, bearing Singapore registration 9V-SPK, struck barriers and construction equipment during takeoff on Runway 05R, a portion of which had been closed...
UTA Union des Transports Africains flight GIH141 was a weekly scheduled flight between Conakry (Guinea), Cotonou (Benin), Beirut (Lebanon) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates). A stopover at Kufra (Libya) was planned between Cotonou and Beirut. Having departed from...
PSA Airlines flight US2495 : on January 19, 2010, the flight crew of PSA Airlines, doing business as US Airways Express flight 2495, rejected the takeoff of a Bombardier CL-600-2B19, N246PS, which subsequently ran off the runway end and then stopped in the engineered...
Pan American World Airways flight PA812 , a Boeing 707-321B aircraft, registered N892PA, was scheduled to operate a regular public transport flight direct from Sydney, Australia, to Honolulu, U.S.A. The flight is conducted by Pan American World Airways Inc. under the...
Danish Air Transport flight DTR54, an aircraft of type ATR 42 with registration mark OY-JRJ was on a scheduled flight from Bergen Airport Flesland (ENBR) to Florø Airport (ENFL). There were 22 passengers, 1 cabin crew member and 2 pilots on board. During take-off the...
Buffalo Airways Ltd. (Buffalo Airways) has a walk-in / on-demand system whereby passengers can arrive to board a plane without having to pre-book a seat on the flight. If the passenger/cargo load exceeds the capacity of 1 aircraft, an additional aircraft can be...
On Thursday, February 16, 1995, at 2027 central standard time, a Douglas DC-8-63, N782AL, operated by Air Transport International, was destroyed by ground impact and fire during an attempted takeoff at the Kansas City International Airport, Kansas City, Missouri. The...
Immediately after takeoff from Runway 15 at Birmingham International Airport the aircraft began a rapid left roll, which continued despite the prompt application of full opposite aileron and rudder. The left winglet contacted the runway shoulder, the outboard part of...
On Sunday 30 January 2000, the Kenya Airways Airbus 310-304, registered 5Y−BEN, was undertaking the scheduled international flight KQ 431 transporting passengers from Abidjan to Nairobi, via Lagos. On board there were 10 crewmembers and 169 passengers. On the same...
Jet2 Holidays flight LS177 was a Boeing B737-804 (G-GDFJ) : as soon as the aircraft commenced its takeoff roll, both pilots commented on a strange smell. A few seconds later, due to what appeared to be smoke in the cabin, the Cabin Service Director (CSD) alerted the...
UtAir aviation flight UT120 crashed on 02.04.2012, at 01:35 UTC (07:35 local time), at day time, under VMC after the takeoff from the Roschino (Tyumen) airport RWY 21. The АТR72-201 VP-BYZ aircraft, operated by JSC “UTAir Aviation” (further referred to as “UTAir”)...
Air France flight AF855 was the Lagos-Paris Charles de Gaulle flight , the final leg in the Paris - Lagos - Port Harcourt - Lagos – Paris rotation. The rotation began in Paris on January 9, and the Port Harcourt - Lagos flight was made on the day of the incident. The...
Iran Air flight IR762 , an Airbus A300-600 with the registration EP-IBB, was to commence a flight from Stockholm/Armanda Airport to Tehran in Iran. Following normal preparations, the aircraft was taxied out to runway 19R for take-off. The runway conditions were...
Finnair flight AY58 incident occurred from from Shanghai, China to Helsinki- Vantaa Airport, Finland on 22 June 2009. The aircraft was an Airbus A340-313, registration OHLQE. There were 195 passengers and 12 crew members on board. The inner rear tyre on the left...
Continental Airlines flight CO1404 : on December 20, 2008, about 18:18 mountain standard time, Continental Airlines flight 1404, a Boeing 737-500, N18611, departed the left side of runway 34R during takeoff from Denver International Airport (DEN), Denver, Colorado. A...
Spanair flight JKK5022 was an MD82 (EC-HFP) that crashed in Madrid (Spain) on Aug. 20th 2008 : the aircraft stalled after liftoff and crashed : 17 passengers + 1 crew member survived the crash. The crew lost control of the airplane as a consequence of entering a stall...
The Boeing 737-86N, registered SU-BPZ from Marsa Alam (Egypt), arrived at 21 h 25 at its parking space at area Q at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport three hours late. During taxiing, the Captain asked the police to intervene to question a passenger who had smoked in...
On May 25, 2008, at 11:31(UTC), a Kalitta Air B747-200 overran runway 20 of the Brussels Airport, Belgium after a Rejected Take-Off. The aircraft came to a stop 300m after the end of runway 20, above the railroad embankment. The aircraft was severely damaged; it broke...
Iran Air flight IRA235 : on 02 Jan 2008, at 07:32 local time ,The Aircraft F.100, registered EP-IDB, operated by Iran Air flight No;IRA235 took off from runway 29L of Mehrabad Airport (OIII) /Teheran destination to Shiraz (OISS) city in the Islamic Republic of Iran ....
On Thursday 9 August 2007, the DHC6 aeroplane registered F-OIQI was scheduled to fly a public transport flight (QE 1121) between Moorea and Tahiti Faa’a with a pilot and 19 passengers on board. The flight, with an average duration of 7 minutes, is performed under VFR...
COMAIR flight DL5191 , on August 27, 2006, about 0606:35 eastern daylight time, a Bombardier CL-600-2B19, N431CA, crashed during takeoff from Blue Grass Airport, Lexington, Kentucky. The flight crew was instructed to take off from runway 22 but instead lined up the...
Onur Air flight OHY2263 was a MD-88 (Boeing McDonnel Douglas) that took off at the Groningen Airport Eelde. On June 17th, 2003 the crew rejected the take-off at a late stage, as a result of which the aircraft overran the runway ending. The aircraft and part of the...
Singapore Airlines flight SQ286 accident took place on takeoff from Auckland airport on March 12, 2003. [...] the captain taxied 9V-SMT to the end of runway 23 Left to use the full runway length for take-off. The pilots had set the flap at Flap 20 and the STAB TRIM at...
On Thursday 6 March 2003, the Boeing 737 registered 7T-VEZ, operated by Air Algérie, was taking off from Tamanrasset to undertake, with a three-hour delay, scheduled flight DAH 6289 to Ghardaïa and Algiers. Six crew members (two flight crew and four cabin crew) and 97...
SAS flight SK686 accident took place on the 8th of October 2001, at 06.10 UTC, a Boeing MD-87, registration marks SE-DMA operated by SAS, while on takeoff run on runway 36R of Milano Linate airport, collided with a Cessna 525-A, registration marks D-IEVX which taxied...
Air France flight AFR4920 took off from runway 26 right at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, shortly before rotation, the front right tyre (tyre No 2) of the left landing gear ran over a strip of metal, which had fallen from another aircraft, and was damaged. Debris...
Air Liberté Streamline Aviation flights IJ8807 SSW200 : the MD 83...
Korean Air Cargo flight KAL8509 arrived at Stansted Airport after a flight from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Prior to leaving the aircraft, the flight engineer made an entry in the Technical Log to the effect that the captain's Attitude Director Indicator (ADI) was...
Tower Air flight TOW41 : on December 20, 1995, at 1136, Tower Air flight 41, a Boeing B-747, veered off the left side of runway 4L during an attempted takeoff at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Jamaica, New York. The flight was a regularly scheduled...
Valujet Airlines flight J7597 : on June 8, 1995, a Douglas DC-9-32, N908VJ, was being operated by ValuJet Airlines as a scheduled, domestic passenger flight under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 121. Flight J7597, destined for Miami,...
Dan Air Services B707 G-BEBP was engaged on a non-scheduled international cargo night on behalf of International Aviation Services for Zambian Airlines. It was carrying a through load of palletised freight from London Heathrow to Lusaka International Airport, with...
KLM - PAN AM flights KL4805 - PAA1736 (the "Tenerife's accident") the highest death toll accident in aviation history. The KLM Boeing 747, registration PH-BUF, took off from Schipol Airport (Amsterdam) at 0900 hours on 27 March 1977, en route to Las Palmas de Gran...
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