E295, Berlin Germany, 2021

E295, Berlin Germany, 2021

Summary

On 12 September 2021, an Embraer 195-E2 began a daytime takeoff from Berlin from an intermediate runway intersection that did not provide adequate field length. Both pilots were unaware of their duplicated error in calculating takeoff performance until seeing the runway end lights as decision and rotation speeds were reached. The aircraft became airborne with very little runway remaining because both pilots had input the same incorrect takeoff data. It was calculated that a high-speed rejected takeoff would have resulted in a runway excursion and an engine failure after V1 would have meant the required climb performance would have been unachievable.

Description

On 12 September 2021, an Embraer 195-E2 (PH-NXD) operated by KLM Cityhopper on a scheduled international passenger flight from Berlin to Amsterdam as KL1830 became airborne only 443 metres before the end of the 3,600 metre-long runway 25R at Berlin. The crew had commenced the takeoff from an intersection that provided 1,320 metres less runway than their performance calculation required. The takeoff and initial climb were unaffected, but neither a high-speed rejected takeoff nor an engine failure immediately after takeoff would have necessarily avoided an accident.   

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