This was probably the worst time to have had to abandon a take-off.
The Qatar Airways plane came to a sudden halt during the launch of a new route from the United States to Doha.
A video showed the plane automatically hitting its brakes on Thursday after things didn’t quite go to plan, with invited media guests watching the drama on screens from their seats.
The reason? The 11,000-foot runway at JFK International Airport, in New York, was too short, according to the plane’s onboard computers.
That’s according to journalist Zach Honig, who was invited to the premier flight to Qatar of the airline’s A350 plane.
He was so scared he had to call his mother, which he wrote about in his Travel Massive blog.
‘As you can see in the video, about 18 seconds after we began rolling down JFK’s runway 22R, the aircraft self-aborted, bringing us from more than 100mph to a loud, screeching halt in roughly 15 seconds,’ he wrote.
After some reassurance from his mother, Mr Honig agreed to fly and the plane successfully took-off 40 minutes later.
He was the one who filmed the incident.