Oa260 From Ireland, joined Nov 2006, 24929 posts, RR: 60 Posted (4 years 8 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 8059 times:
Plane comes off runway at German airport
Forced evacuation of 168 passengers as Nouvelair flight slips off the runway during takeoff from Dortmund airport.
A passenger jet slipped off the runway at Dortmund Airport early today, forcing the evacuation of 168 people on board. No one has been reported injured, German officials say.
The Airbus A321 rolled off the runway during an attempt to take off this morning. The plane was operated by Nouvelair, a private Tunisian airline, and was laying over in Dortmund on a journey between Berlin Schoenefeld and Monastir.
N14AZ From Germany, joined Feb 2007, 2314 posts, RR: 25 Reply 1, posted (4 years 8 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 8017 times:
Hmm, earlier this year I was on board of a Wizzair A320 also in DTM when we had a rejected take-off due to a bird-strike during take-off (a pheasant). Wonder if it was the same again.
PanHAM From Germany, joined May 2005, 7771 posts, RR: 26 Reply 3, posted (4 years 8 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 7676 times:
Quoting BuyantUkhaa (Reply 2): That would be one tough and determined pheasant to knock out two passenger aircraft!
LOL
actually, this was a landing accident. News is that the airport is open again after they brought in special equipment from DUS and cleared the runway finally at 9 pm
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11141 posts, RR: 63 Reply 4, posted (4 years 8 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 7534 times:
Quoting N14AZ (Reply 1): Hmm, earlier this year I was on board of a Wizzair A320 also in DTM when we had a rejected take-off due to a bird-strike during take-off (a pheasant). Wonder if it was the same again.
Those things are evil - I've nearly been killed by hitting one of those at speed on bike, I can't think they'd do a jet engine much good either!
TheSonntag From Germany, joined Jun 2005, 3347 posts, RR: 30 Reply 6, posted (4 years 8 months 20 hours ago) and read 5181 times:
Is it just me or aren't you surprised that this made actually very little news in Germany? Of course slides weren't deployed, so evacuation is a little bit dramatic, but still, after the Spanair crash in public opinion airplanes are death traps right now, and so I would have expected it to be a big story.
Konstantinkoll From Germany, joined Aug 2006, 97 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (4 years 8 months 19 hours ago) and read 4577 times:
Quoting TheSonntag (Reply 8): But it also shows the runway of DTM is really quite short
I live in DTM (the city, not the airport of course), and there are always political debates about either extending the runway and lifting the curfew, or closing the airport alltogether. I rarely use DTM, but take the train over to DUS. DTM is basically just an airport for leisure flights, and some LCC like Easyjet, Germanwings and Wizzair. IIRC LH has axed their ~4x daily flights to MUC recently.
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