Aircraft off the runway in Philippines.
 

Philippines plane off runway as Pope departs
 

This excursion happened in stormy weather after the Pope's visit to the Philippines.
BBC News - Philippines plane misses runway after Pope departs

oh well....not surprising at all.
next!

1/ heavy rain
2/ non grooved runways
3/ Pilots determined to land

= trouble

The Usual Confusion
 

BBc report claims that it was an attempted takeoff. ..... But they also claim it was an overshoot. Well, at least we can see that it is deep in the rhubarb.

At the time when the BBC video was filmed the aircraft appears to be pointing almost directly downwind.

X-wind takeoff - ?
Plane veers off runway before takeoff at Tacloban airport after Pope leaves | News | GMA News Online

I'm just down the way from Tacloban, on an island in Surigao del Norte, and we are in something of a storm at the moment although nothing to get exited about.

The Pope had cut short his visit to Leyte on the advice of the pilots of the plane carrying him; they had expressed concerns about taking off due to the increasing wind. This was a chartered aircraft carrying Government officials - crosswind take off.

Plane off the runway in Philippines
 

A plane carrying politicians leaves the runway at Tacloban in poor weather.
The precceeding flight a few minutes earlier was "Vatican One".

Looks like it was a good call by the pope's pilot to demand(?) the pontif curtail his visit to the Phillipines and leave early due to worsening weather.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...s-9985269.html

http://youtu.be/Ctzm_VlwW_U

The predictable media with their knee-jerk cliché "...a small passenger plane..." Yes, one that weighs around 45 tons at take-off..

Notice on the video Crash Fire Rescue crew are spraying chem on the port wing. Post incident fire? Fuel leak?...or an over reaction?

Delusions of grandeur...still only a oversized nearjet. :)

Looking at the wind, must have done a 180 in the grass. Would've been an interesting ride...

All Hail the 'Press'
 

The 'Press' cannot even decide whether this plane was taking off or landing. How can we believe the rest of their reports? :{:sad:

Operated by SMC, is what the media says ...

the Pope's 320 had the call sign Shepherd One !!!

None of them in the skidded jet were of Pope's entourage .. they were govt officials tailing the Pope's 320 !

As stated above by mickjoebill:

A very professional and difficult call by the pilot of the Pope's aircraft, and sensibly accepted by His Holiness.

This picture in Dailymail shows something else went wrong .. post skidding or pre-skidding ??

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...1484820347.jpg

the caption in Dailymail says "a boy and .. a police man look .. " or something like that

Now only if DM knows the "BOY" looks like a Asian sized MAN !!!

Looks like a port winglet, would explain the foam being applied to the port wing on youtube due to fuel pouring out. Are there any reports of a runway incursion and impact with something causing it to detach ? that may also explain the report from the pax that a loud bang was heard.

Commander is god no ? Sense of hierarchy then :):):)

Do we have the METAR at the time of the crash?

I would like to know in what conditions they made the takeoff.