This Wednesday I had the opportunity to take this snapshot of the cargo jumbo, which abandoned take-off, slided beyond the runway and broke into at least two pieces. The picture was taken through the window of the airport express and makes it quite clear that it was a near miss before turning into a huge catastrophe. If the plane just would have moved 50 yards further, it would have fallen onto the tracks, and fuelled as it was for a transatlantic flight, it would have exploded for sure. Not to think about the consequences if train would have passed at this moment goint to or coming from the airport. Only abot 200 yards further there is the high-speed track from Brussels to Liège and Cologne.

As it was, there were 4 staff on the plane only of whom just one was injured.