Flight to the Canary Islands saves a tragedy by a few meters

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) released a report this week detailing what happened. “serious” incident suffered from flight TUIFly who left Bristol on March 4th and headed for Gran Canaria. Apparently, the plane almost crashed on takeoff.

Airplane, a. B737 800 in which they traveled 163 passengers, two pilots And four flight attendantshad technical problem with automatic accelerators which control the movement of the motors. Because of this, the plane had a height of “only three meters”, managed to take off when the runway ended, and remained only 30 meters from the road: “It was well below the altitude it should have been at the time.”

After finally reaching the correct altitude, the flight continued with some difficulties towards Gran Canaria as usual. But the AAIB is now investigating reason for failure and whether pilots performed the checks specified in the “checklist.”

The crew did not notice the problem.

“Despite theI need to check the acceleration setting At takeoff, the crew did not realize that it was not properly adjusted until takeoff, although they noted how close they were to the end of the runway,” the AAIB report noted.

Moreover, he adds that “the investigation will consider all relevant factors associated with this serious incident and a final report will be released in due course.” Boeing, for its part, told investigators that the original autothrottle system on its 737-800 planes was “not functioning properly.” long history of annoying disconnections in takeoff mode.”