- Date
- March 6, 2013, 00:00 UTC
- Place
- Chicago, IL
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- D-AIKJAirbus
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Tailstrike
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 86368
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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.
TailstrikeAll aircraft: 124 casesDefining event
Factual narrative
The BFU-DE of Germany has notified the NTSB of an accident involving an Airbus 330 that occurred on March 06, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. The NTSB delegated the investigation to Germany and has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the BFU-DE's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Occurrence. All investigative information will be released by the BFU-DE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- D-AIKJ
- Reported as
- Airbus (330)
- Damage
- Minor damage