# NTSB DCA11WA042: Boeing B737, Hamburg, Germany, April 7, 2011

- Type: NTSB incident investigation
- Classification: Incident · No injuries · Foreign investigation
- Date: April 7, 2011, 14:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place: Hamburg, Germany
- Phase of flight: [Landing](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/550) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Landing: Part(s) separation from AC](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/338)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 86 uninjured
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 78809
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=DCA11WA042
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/78809/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/DCA11WA042

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Landing: Part(s) separation from AC](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/338) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 563 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/338/sequence.md)

## 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 (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: 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

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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