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LH A330 crosses the atlantic while damaged
According to http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130410-49059.html
Lufthansa on Wednesday said it was investigating how one of its planes was flown across the Atlantic with a damaged rear end - without any of the staff realizing. The back end of the A330 airbus hit the runway at Chicago airport as it was taking off on March 5th - but no-one noticed and it took off as normal. The trans-Atlantic flight to Munich, with a cruising altitude of 11,000 metres, continued as normal, landing in Bavaria after more than eight hours in the air. Nobody on board realized the damage to the plane - but Germany's air accident investigations board (BFU) recorded the incident as a “severe fault” and said together with Lufthansa, it would be carrying out a full investigation into what happened. “The cabin was not damaged,” although there were visible scrape marks on the outside, said a BFU spokesman. He added that they wanted to find out how the crew had not noticed or reacted to the incident. |
It was D-AIKJ, and it's been out of service since the ferry flight to Hamburg.
http://avherald.com/h?article=45edb5ae&opt=0 Why is the German media just picking up the story now? Not that it's much of a story. |
The Local is not "German media"!
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Stern, Spiegel and Welt picked it up this week because the Bundesluftfahrtamt released a report and called the incident a "schwere Störung".
Whoever was piloting the plane will do some extra hours in the simulator for sure. |
Originally Posted by hugolover
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The Local is not "German media"!
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It appeared in our lounge thread when it happened, strange that reuters and others only saw it yesterday.
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