American Airlines plane diverted because it was too big for the airport

[IRstuff]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a...t-was-too-big-for-its-destination/ar-AA1GjbMb

Not disaster, but certainly a major failure for flying a plane larger than the airport could accommodate. You'd think they would have that known ahead of time

 

[kontiki99]

If some event at the intended destination closed the one suitable runway they might handle it that way.

 

[IRstuff]

If some event at the intended destination closed the one suitable runway they might handle it that way.

Sillier than that, I think; something to do with the plane being too long, based on the airport's RFFS rating, so that's something they should have known before they routed a longer than normal plane to that airport

https://skybrary.aero/articles/rescue-and-fire-fighting-services

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

I have seen A380 in Nap.

It won't be rffs.

 

[LittleInch]

Probably due to the gate being allocated was not sized for that length of plane. Not sure why they couldn't just park it out in the boon docks and bus them to the terminal.

Others sites actually say it was because the runwaywasnt long enough for the plane to take off when fully loaded.
It's 2628m long.

Boeing seem to say it needs closer to 3000m which goes up if the temperature increases.
Even the 787-8 is limited by weight for that airport.

So looks like an error from the company, but the plane plane could have landed, but would have been severely restricted in take off weight or temperature.

Naples looks to be relatively short. That A380 must have been very light on takeoff.

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

The out of performance for departure is more likely.

It was a BA A380 and four engines have less issues than two for hot limited runways.

They could I suspect have got round it with a tech stop in say Munich.