So.... an Emirates A380 took off from a runway that it is approved to operate from.
Wow that is big news.
Except that it damaged the concrete somehow or another and caused a few diversions and resulted in the unavailability of a instrument approach.
They are lucky it was VMC so they just moved the threshold up and continued with visual approaches. If it was IMC it would have shut down all arrivals for hours.
Funny that Leonie Vandeven made no mention of the pavement failure which was the reason given to us at the time it happened
