# NTSB DCA10WA020: Boeing 737, Dortmund, Germany, January 3, 2010

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Foreign investigation
- Date: January 3, 2010, 06:05 local (06:05 UTC)
- Place: Dortmund, Germany
- Location: 51.5183° N, 7.6122° E: Placed by OpenAirDocs at Dortmund Airport (EDLW), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=51.5183&lon=7.6122&mi=10
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 75256
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA10WA020
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/75256/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA10WA020

## Factual narrative

On January 3, 2010, at 0605 UTC, an Air Berlin Boeing 737-86J, registered in Germany as D-ABKF, ran off the end of runway 06 at Dortmund, Germany, during an aborted takeoff. Snow was falling at the time. The takeoff was aborted due to an airspeed indicator anomaly. The airplane was not damaged and no injuries occurred. The event is being investigated as a serious incident by the German Bundesstelle fur Flugunfalluntersuchung (BFU).

## Aircraft

- Registration: D-ABKF (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737 (86J)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 37745
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Air Berlin
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Airport: EDLW, Dortmund

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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