Flight aborted

The brakes and tyres were overheated by the action but no fire was caused and the captain authorised the cabin crew to carry out an emergency evacuation using emergency slides on runway 24L. The runway was immediately cleared

AIR quality in Spain in 2022 shows improvement compared to the previous year.

The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has just published the 2022 Air Quality Assessment Report for Spain which presents the results that will be reported to the European Commission before September 30.

The report details the situation in each of the air quality zones with respect to the legislated values. It aims to give an overview of air quality, as well as describe how air quality is assessed and managed.

The report incorporates a climatological summary of the year with data produced and emergency services attended the aircraft, spraying water on the tyres to cool them down and passengers were picked up by bus and taken to the terminal.

Some aircraft waiting to take off were redirected to runway 24R and there was considerable delay as air traffic control had to arrange a rota whereby both arriving and departing aircraft could safely use the single runway.

A new aircraft was assigned by Vueling and the passengers, (with no significant injuries, although some were hurt during the evacuation) from the aborted flight eventually departed Barcelona at 12.30pm, with a story to tell about what happened to their flight.