Overrun Linked to Bad Data

A flight crew’s faulty data entry resulted in an Emirates Airbus A340-500 overrunning on takeoff by almost 300 meters (1,000 ft.) at Melbourne on Mar. 20, preliminary results from an Australian investigation show. A wrong weight figure, 100 metric tons less than the true weight of 362.9 metric tons...

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