Earlier this week, a Lufthansa Airbus A350 bound for Munich from San Diego declared an emergency and diverted to Nuremberg with a problem onboard.
Information has been released pertinent to this incident, which we will get into in this article.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
Emergency in Nuremberg: Lufthansa LH467 San Diego to Munich…
Lufthansa flight LH467, which declared the emergency, was a routine scheduled flight between San Diego and Munich.
Furthermore, the aircraft involved in the incident was D-AIXA.
As per data from Planespotters.net, D-AIXA is a 7.7 year old Airbus A350-900 that was delivered to the airline in December 2016.
Of the A350-900 variant, Lufthansa has 26 of them in their fleet.
Moreover, of that 26, all but two are in active service, with an average fleet age of 5.2 years.
As well as the A350-900, the German carrier has the following other aircraft in their mainline fleet:
- 35 Airbus A319s.
- 83 Airbus A320s.
- 71 Airbus A321s.
- 9 Airbus A330s.
- 27 Airbus A340s.
- 8 Airbus A380s.
- 27 Boeing 747s.
- 5 Boeing 787s.
- 28 Bombardier CRJ-900s.
- 2 Embraer E190.
Lufthansa flight LH467, which declared the emergency in Nuremberg, departed San Diego at 1755 local time on August 20 bound for Munich.
Furthermore, reporting from The Aviation Herald mentions that the chain of events began not long after departure from the American airport.
It is understood that the nose gear took longer than usual to retract.
Despite this, the gear eventually retracted and the crew opted to continue on to destination initially.
However, nearing Munich, the crew decided to declare an emergency and divert to Nuremberg instead.
The aircraft landed safely without further incident after nearly 11 hours in the air.
The Airbus A350 Was Grounded For Two Days…
Following the emergency onboard Lufthansa LH467 San Diego-Munich, D-AIXA, the Airbus A350, was grounded in Nuremberg for two days as a result.
On August 22, the aircraft repositioned back to Munich as LH9925, as per data from RadarBox.
Moreover, when the aircraft landed in Nuremberg on August 20, it is understood the passengers were given a bus transfer to their destination.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to this incident, we will update you accordingly.
Such updates will be placed at the bottom of the article as and when information comes through.
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