Fun scenario on a British Airways flight between Florence and London on August 11. 20 passengers had to leave the plane before takeoff to lighten the plane, tells an article of the SUN.
In addition, less passengers
The plane, an Erj-190 Embraer, in fact needed a complete complete fuel due to high temperatures, approximately 35 ° C, which make the air less dense, thus modifying the flight conditions for the engines.
The short track of Amerigo Vespucci airport in Florence, from which the device took off, also requires greater acceleration and, therefore, consume more Querzeno.
Result: an additional weight of the aggregate fuel to compensate when landing some passengers.
An increasingly frequent case with global warming
British Airways apologized to the passengers evacuated from this flight, and added that their teams had mobilized to join their destination as quickly as possible after this episode.
An aeronautical expert at Reading University interviewed by SUN explains that this case of an airplane to lighten before takeoff could be reproduced more and more with global warming, “once every summer is currently three or four times a week in 2060s.”
Enough to make flights to Spain, Italy or Greece potentially more expensive, continues, with devices that can transport less passengers.
Source: BFM TV
