A Tui Airways plane in the air.
A TUI Airways Boeing 737.
  • A Boeing 737 barely cleared the runway in an incident in the UK.
  • A report said the pilots didn't notice they'd set the thrust too low, but the autothrottle also had a fault.
  • Boeing described the autothrottle as having "a long history of nuisance disconnects," the report said.

A Boeing 737 barely managed to clear a runway following a software glitch, according to the UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch.

On May 30, the AAIB released a preliminary report about the "serious incident" that took place in March.