Description

On a 23 October, 2005 a Boeing 737-800 being operated by Pegasus Airlines, commenced a night take-off roll on a taxiway parallel to the designated departure runway at Oslo Gardermoen. The aircraft error was observed from the ATC TWR and a stop instruction was issued leading to a rejected take-off (RTO) from a moderate speed.

Synopsis

This is an extract from the Report (SL 20/2006) to serious incident published by the Accident Investigation Board Norway (AIBN):

A Notice to airmen had been issued for RWY 01L: “A1 and A2 clsd, RWY 01L TORA 3200M via A3 and backtrack. RWY 01L not available for landing”. The crew was aware of this and the commander was strongly focused on using the available runway from intersection A3.