The Dutch Safety Board is citing a 2018 takeoff incident that involved a Boeing 737 crew’s use of erroneous takeoff data in pressing the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to require that crews be given more time after a last-minute change in takeoff instructions to check the changed data.
The board’s May 2022 final report on the June 10, 2018, serious incident contained both the safety recommendation to EASA and a similar recommendation to the airline involved, KLM. In both cases, the board said the responses to its recommendations were “partially adequate.”
“Accidents and serious incidents as a result of the use of erroneous takeoff data take place regularly,” the board said earlier this month in its
