Emirates A380 damages YBBN runway
 

Stuck on the ground here, not good news... Tailstrike?

Doesn't matter
EK have 50 more
EK will just pay a fine
EK will just sack the drivers

ATIS YBBN O 052311
APCH: EXP INSTR APCH FOR TFC MANAGEMENT
+ RWY: 14 FOR ARR. RWY 19 CLSD FOR ARR.
RWY 19 FROM A3 TWY AVBL FOR DEP FOR MAX B737
OPR INFO: START APPROVAL REQUIRED.
LOW LEVEL HELICOPTER OPERATIONS
IN THE VICINITY OF THE AERODROME
+ WIND: 200/14,
MAX XW 15KTS RWY 14
CLD: CAVOK
+ TMP: 23
QNH: 1013

Closed North of A3, doubt it's a tailstrike. EK is on their way to AKL at the moment.

depends which way it took off i guess

Given the recent nightly repaving works of the main runway, perhaps a section of the new stuff has given way during the takeoff roll?

RWY 19 was the active and it was on takeoff so IAW could be correct .

QANTAS get blamed.


Runway debris delays flights at Brisbane Airport | News.com.au


FLIGHTS arriving at Brisbane Airport this morning were delayed or diverted while maintenance staff cleared debris from the airport's main runway.
Airport spokeswoman Leonie Vandeven said operations have recommenced at a "displaced threshold" after a departing Qantas A380 blew debris, including dirt and grass, onto the runway during a takeoff earlier this morning.
"The runway was closed temporarily while staff worked to clear the debris because of obvious safety concerns," she said.
"We are currently operating with a shorten runway and are getting back on track. Arrivals were the most affected."

Not to mention the opposition leader being involved in the process. News.com sucks.

WEDCUE- best you change the title of the thread to

It's news.com.au. It could have been a virgin 737 and it would have been reported as a QF380-400 Jumbo jet. They really have no idea.

Well, it would have had a QF flight number....

Watching the play back on FR24, all the fun of diverts etc. starts after Emirates A380 departed for Auckland.

It was Ek.

An EK A380 eh? Here's me thinking it must've been that Concorde operated by Ansett-ANA! :}

Turned up at the airport for a 9:00am flight to Melbourne. Departed at 4:30pm on the scheduled 11:00am flight.....delays and disruptions were ever-so-slightly more extensive than BAC and the media were reporting. :sad:

Oh the joy of staff travel! :cool:

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:hmm:

What does a pavement failure actually look like? How are they detected . Naked eye? What is actually giving way . The top layer of concrete or sand /metal/ dirt at a deeper level?

When there's pot holes

Usually someone spots it visually then reports it and they get engineer out there to do some sort of official inspection. I would imagine this is part of the role of safety cars.

You also see minor ones spotted during inspections and they circle them with the yellow paint. Often seen small holes in the pavement circled as you taxi around.

Sydney airport used to have problems with pavement failure in prolonged periods of rain on A1. I would assume they redid the drainage and that seems to fix the problem.