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Frankfurt Airport: Lufthansa plane escapes a catastrophe by a margin

2020-10-17T09:54:54.757Z


Shock moment at Frankfurt Airport: The instruments show incorrect values, the flight has to be aborted. A Lufthansa Cargo Boeing had to make an emergency landing at Frankfurt Airport.


Shock moment at Frankfurt Airport: The instruments show incorrect values, the flight has to be aborted.

A Lufthansa Cargo Boeing had to make an emergency landing at Frankfurt Airport.

  • A

    Lufthansa Cargo

    plane

    narrowly escaped a

    disaster

    .

  • Shortly after take-off at

    Frankfurt Airport

    , the pilots had to make an

    emergency

    call.

  • The

    Boeing's

    instruments

    had gone crazy.

Frankfurt - A

Lufthansa Cargo

plane

narrowly escaped a disaster.

This is reported by the specialist portal “Aviation Herald”.

The reason was apparently wrong values ​​of the altimeter.

The flight of the Boeing 777-200F machine with the registration D-ALFG was scheduled to take off on Saturday, October 10 at around 9:20 a.m. from

Frankfurt Airport

to Shanghai-Pudong.

Shortly after take-off, the pilots radioed the emergency call “

Mayday Mayday

” to

Frankfurt

,

according to the “Avaiation Herald”

, as their altimeter was showing unreliable values.

Return to Frankfurt Airport after just an hour

A request from the pilots at the tower at

Frankfurt Airport

revealed that, according to the data it sent, their aircraft was only around 61 meters high.

The instruments on board the Boeing, however, indicated an altitude of around 1900 meters.

Information that also coincided with the visual altitude of the pilots.

However, since the transmission of the actual flight altitude is of essential importance for the safety of air traffic, the pilots decided to return to Frankfurt Airport.

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The machine flew off from Frankfurt Airport the following day

Before landing, the crew of the

Lufthansa Cargo plane

let out

some fuel so that they didn't have to land with overweight.

Around 65 minutes after take-off, the one and a half year old Boeing touched down again on runway 07C

at Frankfurt Airport

, as data from the Flightaware portal show.

The incident involving the 777-200F did not pose a threat to people in the air because it was a cargo aircraft.

According to Lufthansa Cargo, the machine flew again on the following day (October 13, 2020).

It went from

Frankfurt

to Tokyo.

Source: merkur

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