DCA11WA042

NTSB incident investigation · Boeing B737 · Hamburg, Germany · April 7, 2011

Incident · No injuriesForeign investigation
Date
April 7, 2011, 14:00 local (14:00 UTC)
Place
Hamburg, Germany
Injuries
86 uninjured
Damage
Minor damage
Phase of flight
Landing
Aircraft
D-ABEHBoeing B737
Defining event
Landing: Part(s) separation from AC
NTSB office
Major Investigations Division
Lead agency
Other
Case key
78809

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Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.

Factual narrative

On April 7, 2011, a Boeing 737-800, German registration D-ABEH, operated by Deutsche Lufthansa, experienced a failure of the nosewheel upon landing at Hamburg Airport, Germany. The flight was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from Koln-Bonn, Germany. There were no injuries to the 5 crew and 81 passengers. This incident is being investigated by the BFU of Germany.

Aircraft

Registration
D-ABEH
Reported as
Boeing B737
Category
Airplane
Damage
Minor damage
Flight
Non-U.S., commercial
Operator
Lufthansa
Registered owner
Lufthansa
Airworthiness certificate
Standard, Transport
Departed
EDDK · Koln-Bonn
Destination
EDDH · Hamburg
Flight plan
IFR
Airport
EDDH · Hamburg