British Airways A388 at London on Dec 7th 2019, rejected takeoff due to nosewheel steering indication

Last Update: December 8, 2019 / 20:42:55 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 7, 2019

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BA-11

Aircraft Registration
G-XLEG

Aircraft Type
Airbus A380-800

ICAO Type Designator
A388

A British Airways Airbus A380-800, registration G-XLEG performing flight BA-11 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Singapore (Singapore), was accelerating for takeoff from Heathrow's runway 27L when the crew rejected takeoff at low speed. The aircraft stopped on the runway for about 5 minutes, then vacated the runway and stopped again on the parallel taxiway. About 30 minutes after the rejected takeoff the aircraft taxied to the holding point, departed and reached Singapore without further incident.

A passenger reported the captain announced after vacating the runway that they had received a nose wheel steering indication and had recovered nose wheel steering. Later he announced that they had reset the computer in consultation with maintenance. The aircraft subsequently performed the flight without any further incident.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 7, 2019

Classification
Incident

Flight number
BA-11

Aircraft Registration
G-XLEG

Aircraft Type
Airbus A380-800

ICAO Type Designator
A388

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