Created Friday, May 28th 2021 21:19Z, last updated Friday, May 28th 2021 21:19Z
An Air Malta Airbus A320-200N, registration 9H-NEC performing flight
KM-612 from Malta (Malta) to Rome Fiumicino (Italy), was accelerating for takeoff from Malta's runway 23 when the crew rejected takeoff at high speed (about 127 knots over ground). The aircraft came to a stop near the end of the runway, the crew indicated they were ready to vacate with no assistance needed, tower queried whether they could backtrack the runway or would be happy to wait for the fire engines. The crew subsequently asked whether any smoke was visible from the undercarriage, tower dispatched the emergency services. The crew advised, they only had high brakes temperatures, the engines were operating normally. After inspection by the emergency services the aircraft backtracked the runway and returned to the apron.
A replacemnet A320-200N registration 9H-NED reached Rome with a delay of 3 hours.
The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 15 hours later.
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