A Vueling Airbus A320-200, registration EC-LVS (in the last couple of years, this aircraft has been involved in zero other incidents. The same airline, Vueling, has been featured in totally 34 incidents or accidents) performing flight VY-1005 from Barcelona,SP to Madrid,SP (Spain), was cleared to line up Barcelona's runway 07R full length and wait.
An Ural Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration VQ-BOB performing flight U6-7045 from Moscow Domodedovo (Russia) to Barcelona,SP (Spain), was on short final to Barcelona's runway 02 below 500 feet AGL when EC-LVS began their takeoff roll without clearance.
A listener on frequency reported that tower immediately intervened stating that the Vueling had no takeoff clearance. The Vueling crew reacted: "Vueling stopping!" and rejected takeoff at low speed. The aircraft came to a stop about abeam taxiway G9 after about 300 meters/1000 feet ground roll, just when coming to a stop the A321 touched down in the touch down zone of runway 02.
The A320 subsequently turned off runway 07R onto high speed turn off runway 25L/taxiway G9, returned to the holding point runway 07R and departed about 5 minutes later.
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