On September the 4th, 2016 BA flight 27, an A318 made an emergency belly landing near London City Airport. As ATC didn’t clear the plane for a back taxi, the plane had very little takeoff room. The low rotation speed ment the plane could not have had enough power to climb. The plane needed to land without a landing gear because lowering the gear would have meant the plane had too much drag to stay airborne. The Airbus A318 cam to a stop on a street near the airport. Thankfully no one died but several people were injured as the Airbus A318 hit their cars and themselves. (This (not counting the injury part) is all true and all of this happened today on Live)
You shouldn’t have taken off from London City in an a318 without back taxiing. This could have easily been avoided because you need to back taxi in almost any plane at London City. ;)
Is there already a thread for this? If not someone should make one so we can compile all IF incidents on one thread rather than a new thread per incident.
Lol, the other day I accidentally disengaged auto-pilot at 12,000 ft and nose-dived, only just saving the aircraft and then made a safe emergency landing at Southend Airport.
