A plane accident was avoided at Brussels Airport on Thursday evening. A DHL cargo plane had problems taking off and had to apply the brakes. In addition, eight tires jumped about three hundred meters from the end of the runway.
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The DHL flight, which had to depart for Vitoria in Spain at 6.10 pm, immediately encountered problems from the moment of take-off. “The nose wheel took off, but the rest didn’t,” explains Freek De Witte of DHL. ‘The pilots immediately checked the speed at that moment to determine whether they could safely abort the landing. That was the case. The aircraft finally came into being about three hundred meters from the end of the runway. Everything went as it should. ‘
Tires burst
Due to the intense braking maneuver, eight tires jumped off the device. The fire brigade was en masse and also extinguished the smoldering tires. ‘Afterwards, the load in the aircraft was checked and re-weighed, but there was nothing wrong with that. We now have to see what did go wrong. ‘
The Aviation Accident Investigation Unit of the Directorate-General Aviation has already started an investigation. The cargo itself left later in the evening for the most part with another plane to its destination.
Although the aircraft was only removed from the tarmac at 4.10 am Friday morning, this had little effect on air traffic during the rest of the evening and night. ‘We used runways 19 and 25L respectively for departing and arriving flights,’ says Nathalie Pierard of Brussels Airport. “Not many flights were planned anyway.”
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