Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
Anyway this accident here is not an intersection accident , it is a take off distance/weight miscalculation one , a bit similar to the 2003 Singapore airlines 747 that attempted to take off with a TOW error of 100 tons. ( and a 330 in Australia that did the very same a few years later) so all human errors as you correctly mention. and not procedural ones.
It was an Emirates A340 (not 330) in MEL back in 2009 and it was a major mistake by the flight crew and a minor miracle that it happened where it did (they had plenty of grass beyond the end of the runway with no obstacles in order to gain speed and climb out, after one hell of a tail scrape mind you.