DRAMA AT "NIKOLA TESLA" AIRPORT: A plane nearly fell on the highway, they were seconds away for disaster

Flight FZ1746 from Belgrade to Dubai could have been interrupted only a few minutes after the passengers boarded, because the plane "detached" from the runway too late. Namely, the "Boeing 737-8 MAX" flew over the runway threshold markings at a height of only a few meters.

According to a well-informed source, the passengers were not even aware that their lives were in danger, although the plane started to climb unusually slowly, after which it flew past the runway at a height of less than 10 meters.

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- Although the pilots did their take-off calculations using the entire length of the runway, which is 3,000 meters, for some reason they did not take off from its beginning, but from a place one kilometer down the runway, in the direction of the highway. The tragedy was avoided at the last minute, because the plane barely flew over the protective fence and almost ended up on the highway. That certainly could have led to passengers and crew members being injured, not to mention the massive car crash that would have been caused by the collapsed plane and the deaths of those who were on the section of the highway near the airport at that time - says the source of Objektiv.