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FlightRadar24 shows them doing an intersection departure with only half the runway.

Assuming this is accurate I would think this is a terrible idea in a large, heavy aircraft (and I realize they might not have been heavy for this flight).

When I was flying I would regularly hear airliners refuse intersection departures past a few hundred feet from the end of the runway due to company SOPs.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vt-anb#3ac3097f




ADS-B at that airport seems very inaccurate, if you look at previous departures there are a bunch of planes misplaced.


they backtracked and used the full runway


Baseless speculation and very unproductive comment. At least show some takeoff calculations and perhaps don't speculate with confirmed unreliable ADS-B data




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