HHarry

SWISSBOBBY

Before I took my first A340 flight from ZRH to BKK on LX I was warned how long it takes for the 4 hairdryers to get that bird into the air.

Chris9642

RichyC

I've had a few go-arounds but nothing too exciting. My only RTO was on an Air Botnia Saab 340 from Turku in Finland to (I think) Karlstad in Sweden. Engines wound up all the way and we were a good distance down the runway before slamming the anchors on and coming to a stop. There followed a rather lengthy explanation in Finnish from the driver (lasted a good few mins as I recall). The english translation was a bit shorter: "the engine is broken".

fluffymitten

Checked the Op Logs for 26/08 and not a peep about a RTO. However VS001 aborted take off yesterday (27/08) due to the cargo door indicator being on. It only got mentioned because it was at a time of high regulation due to weather and it didn't help the already significant delays.

Globaliser

I thought it was well known that those 340s only ever gained altitude because the curvature of the earth meant that the surface would gradually fall away from the aircraft?

Duck1981

Oh that's interesting. I swear the plane was for a few min at the holding point, came on the runway, started to T/O and came abruptly to a hold on the runway approx. next to T2. Then a follow me car came and guided the plane towards the apron behind T2 (behind the satellite terminal) where it was parked for 30min (I did not have a proper line of sight though).

(I also saw another 747 going around at about 2.45pm so a rather interesting day)

cgtechuk

1 RTO

GLA - LHR on BA in April. As we were going down the runway the captain stopped the aircraft and pulled off onto a taxiway and an engineer came on board, Reason was a hydraulic failure warning.


8 Go Arounds:

5 were into UIO (Quito) in Ecuador from Lima on Latam, Wind-shear warnings one of which was a touch and go, we diverted to GYE Guayaquil after the second and 4th attempt for more fuel then a training captain came on and told the cabin to prepare for a hard landing and it really was as the plane hovered over the runway and just dropped, took around 5 hours all in . I have the Flight Radar tape recording somewhere

2 Go Arounds was the infamous BA Gib do where we ended up in Malaga

1 was in DCA for Weather 3 years back

Globaliser

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/f...ba263#21d984f8 gives some more information. The aircraft taxied from the western side of T5B (EF gives the consistent information that it was B36) to the north and then to the east. It lined up on 27R at about 1312Z, trundled along some of the runway at what looks like normal taxi speed (low 20s) and then turned off the runway. It then sat somewhere near T2 for about 20 minutes (FR24's playback resolution isn't that good), before taxiing south to line up on 27L at about 1410Z and then taking off (presumably because the runways had switched at 1500L as usual?).

If this wasn't logged as an RTO, the speeds suggest that they simply found something wrong when lining up, so taxied forward and got off the runway before getting the problem fixed in fairly short order.

fluffymitten

I'm not saying it didn't happen; just that it didn't impact the operation enough to be logged.

Heathrow Tower

South London Bon Viveur

Keep it Riel

1 RTO - Asian Spirit Manila to Caticlan (MPM for those in the know!) in 1996. Sharp left turn off the runway at high speed, back to terminal, disembarked. Some degree of Chinese whispers (Tagalog whispers?) as to what had happened but the common belief was that the pilot couldn't pull the yoke back when he reached take-off speed - not sure this is true but it felt reasonable at the time. Reboarded an hour later just as an engineer was leaving the cabin carrying a large spanner / wrench. Took off again with no issues.

2 go arounds. Most memorable was in 2006 on a very heavy Lufthansa 747 from SGN to BKK, diverted to Pattaya (UTP - another rare one!) due to thunderstorms in Don Muang. The pilot had already warned us that he'd have to hit the brakes hard on landing due to the weight and the shortish runway but a very late go around instead. A very deadpan announcement that as we were the first plane to land due to the diversion, they'd obviously not told everyone at the airport and there was someone parked on the runway.

1 hybrid / other. A DC-3 in 1995 from PZO to CAJ (full marks if you get both of those - answer below!) Took off, left turn, left turn, left turn, landed. Flight attendant climbed to the front of the cabin (a DC-3 so when parked there's something like a 30 degree angle in the cabin!) and flicked through the book of announcements frowning with each announcement she rejected. She finally settled on "Apologies for the inconvenience but we have had to return to the airport due to the wrong type of cloud". The half dozen engineers who ran to the plane and looked intently at the landing gear must have just been a coincidence.

Happy days...

* Cuidad Guyana to Canaima.

firstlight

my one rto was on my first journey as a baec member.l in 2008 Takeoff from SIN in a heavily laden 747 on WT window seat on LHS I saw flames coming out of the no. 1 engine and then a rejected takeoff with very hard braking. I mentioned to CC I had seen the flames and got interviewed by the captain. Very exciting at the time. The fan blades were intersecting with the casing. Engine knackered so delayed a day and then got upgraded to PE on the way home.

salut0

I wasn’t on this but here’s a rejected take off that happened today being discussed on the AA forum:
120 knots to zero on aborted takeoff just now!