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THIS MD-80 accident has been mentioned before. Interesting reading. 3.5Meg pdf.
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Runway Over-run Onur Air. Runway overrun after rejected take-off of the Onur Air MD-88, registration TC-ONP, at Groningen Airport Eelde on 17 June 2003.
Synopsis. The investigation shows that the crew initially rejected the take-off when an acoustic alert signal was activated. This signal pertained to a warning for an incorrect setting of the trim of the longitudinal control system. When carrying out a check the crew did not find any peculiarities, although these were present. After this short interruption the take-off was resumed and this time, when the (repeating) sound alert signal went off, the signal was ignored.
When the captain noticed that the control force required to rotate the aircraft was significantly higher than normal he decided to reject the take-off. At that moment the remaining runway length was too short to bring the aircraft to a complete stop before the runway end.