In May 2008, a Kalitta Boeing 747-200F aborted its take off at Brussels Airport due to an engine failure. The aircraft was due to fly to Bahrain on a schedule freight flight, what had happened was the crew noticed an engine malfunction and so decided to reject the take off, this was just after V1 the speed at which the pilots have to decide whether the aircraft will take off or not. The aircraft, a 200 Series operated as a passenger model by China Airlines previously, was carrying over 70 tons of freight including a lot of mail. It crashed at the end of RWY 20 just on the threshold or RWY 02 which is a runway often in use for landing. The aircraft suffered damage beyond economical repair but fortunately there were no casualties, the crew escaped safely, and the railway lines were not hit. I was not in Belgium when it happened, but after I came back one week after I saw the front part of the fuselage still resting at the end of the runway, I saw the wings with the damaged engine and the escaping slides coming out of the upper deck (too bad I didn't have my camera, I didn't have much time anyway because I had a meeting that evening, and the next day it was raining). The rear part of the aircraft had already been taken away by cranes.
A few days after, I went back there again. I wanted to take a picture but unfortunately when I went there with my camera, the aircraft had already been taken away entirely. All I could see was damage to the threshold of RWY 02 in Brussels.
