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| Date: | Wednesday 30 July 1997 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Airbus A300B4-605R |
| Owner/operator: | Emirates |
| Registration: | A6-EKO |
| MSN: | 747 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1994 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 234 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor, repaired |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG/LFPG) -
 France
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG/LFPG) |
| Dubai Airport (DXB) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Due to an error in load calculation, the aircraft was loaded with a rear center of gravity well beyond the authorized limit. During acceleration for take-off, the aircraft pitched up at slow speed and its tail touched the ground. The pilot then abandoned the take-off.
Causes
The incident occurred due to the incorrect distribution of weight in the aircraft, causing a CofG a long way aft of the authorized limit.
This distribution was the consequence of an error in entering the dry operating index at the beginning of the process of calculating the loadsheet, an error which was not subsequently detected.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://bea.aero/en/investigation-reports/notified-events/detail/a-la-suite-dune-erreur-de-calcul-dans-le-chargement-lavion-est-charge-avec-un-centrage-arriere/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 17 April 2012 | TC-OAG | Onur Air | 1 | Amman-Queen Alia International Airport (AMM/OJAI) |  |
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| 1 May 2012 | TC-OAG | Saudi Arabian Airlines, lsf Onur Air | 0 | Jeddah-King Abdulaziz International Airport (JED) |  |
sub |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Jun-2025 15:04 | ASN | Added |
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