Final Report B773 (VT-JEK), London Heathrow UK, 30 Aug 2016

Final Report B773 (VT-JEK), London Heathrow UK, 30 Aug 2016

Publication info
Author
AAIB (India)
Category
Controlled Flight Into Terrain Human Factors Runway Excursion
Date of publication
10/08/2018

On 30 August 2016, a Boeing 777-300 crew began takeoff from London Heathrow at an intersection one third of the way along the runway using the reduced thrust calculated for a full-length take off instead of the rated thrust calculated for the intersection takeoff. As a result, the aircraft was only just airborne as it crossed the airport boundary and an adjacent public road. The Investigation attributed the data input error to crew failure to respond appropriately on finding that they had provisionally computed performance data based on different assumptions and concluded that the relevant Operator procedures were insufficiently robust.

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