Aborted A380 take-off at Birmingham Airport and the disruption that followed 😁 See description. 

7:45 - Start of Emirates A380 take-off sequence 8:57 - Appearance of helicopter at top right corner of screen 10:40 - Airport Patrol vehicles come into sight 10:55 - Easyjet A320 awaits instructions 13:58 - A380 exits runway, followed by Patrol vehicles 14:50 - Easyjet manoeuvres to take-off position 15:35 - Qatar B787-8 comes into view - takes off at 17:15 19:12 - Jet2 A321 takes up position 19:34 - Pilatus PC-24 moves forward 21:03 - Jet2 B737-800 comes into land 21:22 - Cessna Citation 560XL moves forward - takes off at 23:05 24:42 - Ryanair B737-800 comes into land 25:40 - Emirates A380 preps for departure - takes off at 27:35 - banks right then left 31:02 - Jet2 A321 comes forward - takes off at 31:57 32:28 - Jet2 B737-800 takes up position 33:10 - Saudia B787-9 is next to go - waits - and lines up for take-off 😀

Amazing! I loved to see the wind structure from the back. It takes a lot lift to suspend something so big into the sky and I can see how the wing accommodate that so beautifully!

Wow, what a dramatic turn of events! The aborted A380 take-off at Birmingham Airport and the ensuing disruption make for quite the story. Looking forward to hearing more details in the description. Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful on-ground spotting, great camera stabilization. Hat tip to you. Kudos to Birmingham field being able to accommodate an A380.

What a beautiful plane! Gorgeous but my goodness, those wings! Looks like they’re gonna just snap right off from the weight. It really is an engineering marvel.

Always amazed how such a large super plane lifts off so gracefully ifly 380 always

Flown the A380 on Thai air , Emirates and Qatar. Amazing aeroplane, smooth, spacious and comfortable.

Magnificent piece of engineering

Shorter runway needed for A380 than i would have imagined.Rog.. Beautifully captured.

I had the privilege a few times. My absolute favorite and it boggles the mind when you see this huge piece of metal and you wonder how it can possibly fly.

Can you imagine the Wright Brothers seeing an Airbus 380 take off for the first time?

Great Video 👍👍Such a awesome sight the 380 leaving 😀😀

Woww !! How does such a heavy thing even fly ...brilliant

Awesome! Greetings from Helsinki Finland

Must have missed the aborted takeoff. It's unimaginable how such a BIG ASS aircraft can get off the ground towing such weight.It's a behemoth, the likes of a flying Blue whale. They might as well build them the size of a cruise ship.😱😱😱 to save money they are building too ooo big to fit more passengers. I would be afraid to fly in such a plane. What next a plane as BIG as the Starship Enterprise ???? God help us. 😱😱😳😳

Grazie per il bel video e porgo i miei più cordiali saluti a "Speedbird 009" - Luciano il perugino (Italia) 😀🍀🍀🍀

Would a helicopter really create that much wind vortex for the mighty A380? Great video btw.

Beautiful video and what a powerful Camera, The 380 is an Amazing development in Air Technology

Flew from Italy to Atlanta on an A380, pieces falling off inside, 90 degrees in the back and 45 in 1st class. What a POS!

Amazing video i enjoyed watching fully, thanks for making this video. By the way i flew on A380 emirates aircraft on 19th nov 2023, to Dubai from India Bangalore. It's an amazing aircraft

WTH. Speedbird🤷‍♂️👌. This came up as recommended for me. Great video. Will check out your other vids when i have time. Hope youre well 👍.

great footage. Beats looking at just a wing:)

I live under the flight path from Birmingham, have flown from there, but it's still amazing how busy it is. I first visited in my teens, 50 years ago, when it was still known as Elmdon, and the solitary building and flight tower were on the other side of the site. There were a handful of flights a day, we were meeting someone from Düsseldorf. Just seeing an airplane was an event back then. I saw the helicopter, thought it was a drone at first, it was so tiny. Wonder why it was there? Seems irresponsible to try to land at the airport with some many alternative landing sites

First time looking at your channel an I love it

Well we don't know what the problem was there except to say that the operation of the A380 out of Birmingham with a full load of passengers, freight and fuel (to get to an economically viable destination like the Emirates is a marginal proposition. However I doubt that the airline didn't know this and had factored it into the take off statistics. So it's more likely that the aircraft had engine or other problems and the flight crew aborted the departure.

Great visual on the wing deflection of the Qatar jet.

Another great Video my friend. Awesome 👍🏼✈️‼️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️

Impresionante un espectaculo

The pilot of the 380 had to abort takeoff because of the inbound helicopter - f/w aircraft have priority at an airport unless the heli is responding to a serious emergency!

This is very awesome. I didn't know that an aborted Emirates A380 departure recently occurred at Birmingham Airport

Such an interesting caternary of the wings on the 380

Bien por el equipo de vuelo, el piloto sebe lo que lleva de responsabilidad. El gasto de combustible si fue grande.

It looks like the police were following the A380 all the way around.

The other large plane that was retired during Covid was the A-340.

How could helicopter create vortex? He’s not even near the RW.

Sir, you're holding up the line😂

Do people really think the A-380 is beautiful?! It looks more like a container ship compared with the Queen Mary. Some A-380 pilots (here on YT) call it “The French Potato,” although they admire its technology.

Shorter runway needed for A380 than i would have imagined.Rog.

Engineering marvel....

Maybe I'm missing something but where was the disruption, I only saw various planes taking off, nothing else.🤔

Great video,I can hear ATC I think on a receiver in the background,is that you?if so I’ve always wanted to get a receiver so I can hear,any ideas as to what to get for this, And is it illegal to listen

Speedbird, did you work for BOAC? I flew to Singapore when the A380 was launched (2009?) My favoured airlines for travel to SE Asia used to be Singapore and Malaysian but they now use A350s, so I will have to use Emirates in future. I think they have most of the A380s that were ever made!

Nice chachir

Big Sumbich 👍

Thumb down, CLICK BAiT, no matter how good !!!

How many 380 flights does this airport handle, and what was the deal with the chase cars?

It's Heavily pregnant and needs a good push!

26 The Praise the Lord 86 🙏🤗🌠😇😊👍♥️ John 3:16

A commentory would have been helpful. Had no clue what was happening and why.

In the bid to get more paying passengers in one plane I think they are pushing the envelope a bit too far.

With enough thrust anything can fly!! What is that design on the body suppose to be??

Where did they manage to find pilots that small?

Birmingham humpback runway. 😁😁

Use a wind screen on your microphone.

Regarding the Follow-Me / Ops vehicles. Birmingham, like most airports hosting Code F (aka Code VI) operations will have trail vehicles during taxi and takeoff. The vehicles help monitor Main Landing Gear to Pavement Edge distances and turning radius, and perform real-time inspection for damaged infrastructure (lights, signage, pavement, etc.) and debris blown onto runway by jet blast. Runway inspection typically not required following landing as only A380 inboard engines have thrust reversers.

Just watched this for about the 3rd time! Hats off to you Speedbird great video buddy, brilliant catch. Its nuts how something like that can cause disruption so quick in our smaller airports in UK. Great job!

Don't understand why your camera follows an airplane until it lines up on the runway to take off, and then when it's taking off, you divert back to see the next plane taxiing up. The whole point of filming these things is to see the take-offs, not the planes taxiing.

wow, The a380 is one of the largest aircraft in the world, nice plane spotting video 👍

Glad I finally got to watch this Speedbird, great video well done buddy! Love the view from that location too. Thanks for sharing and great camera work!! 👏👏👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I like the A380 for it's size but I will always have my first love which is the 747-4 and it's series. If you flew commercial air in the 70's and 80's you can't help but adore the 747.

Glad to see the A380 has been resurrected ... my wife and I regularly commuted LON-SIN before Covid and always re-arranged our schedule to book on an A380 ... huge sense of interior space, quiet and stable in the air ... it felt safer because of its sheer size!

Pilot: Damn. I forgot my wallet at the gate. We'll have to go back and get it.

Houston I think we have a problem the ai just drove us a ground. Now we don't have enough fuel for flight plans.

Lucky the abort was so early in the takeoff roll

Could’ve been as simple as the left or right flaps were not responding fully.. low on hydraulic fluid.. could’ve been a tire low on air. Who knows

Great to see the return of the A380, cheers for sharing your video - always a fantastic an imposing figure of an aeroplane (y) Have been lucky enough to fly several times with Emirates from here back to Hong Kong. Last flight was back in 2018 when I turned left and up a few stair into the upper deck area which had been converted to economy - around 30 seats from memory with dedicated staff just for this section.

it took longer for the private jet to get in the air than the 380 brilliant plane thought i was going on one again this year but theyve cancelled it doha-bangkok totally gutted

Wow, not much thundering down the runway. I was surprised how quickly it was airborne.

Seeing the A380 take off is just something else and I’ve been lucky enough to have traveled many times out and back to Manchester on Emirates & Singapore A380’s.

It’s thrilling to watch any aircraft but this one is especially magical.. it’s big, commanding such big space, but with an elegance once in the sky.

Awesome capture! May I feature this rejected takeoff in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. Cheers!

Was this the same aircraft that was subject to a fire alert on July 4 at Birmingham when smoke was seen coming from the undercarriage. Is it the same day? Media photo of the July 4 incident shows the same journey to the future livery. The incident was blamed on a brake problem. Might explain the "escorted" takeoff.

Why are there 2 emergency vehicles following the plane on taxi out to runway? That's not standard..

Actually, you did catch the helicopter… I can see it’s just off to the right of the cockpit. I think it was an aborted takeoff because it looked like they had started to apply takeoff power and then suddenly turned it off. But I’m no aviation expert.

What hell??! A dog barking on the runway😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I flew the amazing British Airways A380 a few months ago roundtrip from DFW to London. Effortless takeoff & landings with incredible space... Loved flying on this plane, as much as the 747's, A350's and my luckiest upgrade of my lifetime in 1997....the Concorde.

J'ai vu, sur cette vidéo, un nombre incroyable d'oiseaux, est-ce normal?

Some one forget to push all the batteries in the holder properly and give the rubber band anther 1000turnns on the hand crank and tell all the passengers including first class to peddle as hard as they can not to forget peddle back ward Wen they land 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

So 20 minutes later A380 attempt takeoff again.

I am directly under the approach path for Dulles in VA. I see the 380 fly over at 12,000 feet every day. It looks to be more like 5,000 ft due to it's size. Never fails to impress me.

+1 ... How that puppy flies 28:00 is anyone's guess. ... Think of the fuel burn rate?

What a Beautiful Arabic calligraphy ❤ painting, it’s the most rare painting with a meaning, appreciate indeed 😂 ya rabbi .

Nice plane watching video. But - Power up - Power-Down is not an aborted takeoff. And there is no obvious chaos following. So did I miss it or are you just playin klikkie-baitey?

I am from Uruguay, 84. Magnificently shot video. A380 take-off impressive and so well captured. Congrats.

I can't understand why the abort. The helicopter doesn't appear on the video until well after the Airbus has slowed to taxi speed. And the pilots couldn't have possibly seen it from the cockpit since the helo was many hundred yards behind the runway when the abort began. Possibly the control tower instructed them to abort? Doesn't seem likely. It looked like the pilot flying came very close to a tail strike on rotation but maybe it appears that way due to the telephoto lens in use. BTW: I flew Boeing 747's for twelve years (at Northwest Orient) and made only one aborted takeoff. We were departing Tokyo (Narita) with a typhoon bearing down on the field. About five seconds after brake release, my windshield wipers stopped working in the middle of a very heavy rainstorm. I had to abort at about 35 knots because I couldn't see out of the windshield. In addition, I had never flown with the co-pilot before this flight (I was a substitute for the captain who had taken ill about 30 minutes earlier) and company policy was never to transfer control of the aircraft in such a doubtful situation. Anyhow, we got the wipers fixed and departed for Hawaii although the wind and rain had gotten progressively worse.

Looks like really busy and good place to watch from 👍👍😀😀

It's simply amazing how that much weight can get into the air. I know, physics and aerodynamics but still.

Incredible zoom. Difficult to accurately track with such high zoom. Nice job. Seems to me we stayed with it long enough to see even the flaps retract.

I live in Canada 🇨🇦🌲where Canadians are forced to pay a carbon tax to "save planet earth"......You're welcome

interesting, the Easy Jet 320 takes the runway for takeoff and you choose, instead, to pan to a lumbering 787 taxiing instead......then, the Pilatus PC-24 holding whilst jet2 takes off,,wonder if the airport services do a FOD check after 380 take offs because of the outboard engines overhanging the runway edges..overall you got a comment and thumbs up, but no sub

It’s nice to see A380 back in service at Birmingham Airport 😊

Good to watch even better to fly on, love the take off it feels like an eternity, best business class 😊

What happened???

But, all in all I love it, this is my hobby, I thank and salute you for effort you put in and show us this wonderful experience,

Very very impression 😮💞💞💞

Had my flight on an a380 (Qantas) last year from london Heathrow to Sydney. Granted, I was in premium economy, but it was one of the best flights I’ve ever taken - in fact it was just the best! I’ve never been so comfortable in my life! I’d fly premium economy on an a380 again over virgin or ba products, and even some airlines coffins, sorry I mean business class (take note BA)

i used to work up in San Bruno in the hills above SFO (San Francisco International) and the 380's came in about once an hour taking off right above us headed out to the ocean. The are truly monsters, like awe inspiring giants lurching into the sky.

What a monster. ❤❤

Total click bait. 27 minutes of watching planes taxi and then a normal airbus takeoff and climb out,

Stunning plane is the A380 especially when fitted with the Rolls engine