Wizz A21N at Budapest on Jun 19th 2019, wheel damage on landing due to loose runway slab

Last Update: June 23, 2019 / 11:26:09 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 19, 2019

Classification
Incident

Airline
Wizz Air

Flight number
W6-2404

Aircraft Registration
HA-LVB

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321-Neo

ICAO Type Designator
A21N

A Wizzair Airbus A321-200N, registration HA-LVB performing flight W6-2404 from Stockholm Skavsta (Sweden) to Budapest (Hungary), landed on Budapest's runway 13R but received damage to one of the wheels due to a loose runway slab.

The runway and the airport needed to be closed for the necessary repairs, the second runway 13L/31R was closed long term for reconstruction work. Runway 13R/31L could be reopened after about 90 minutes.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 29.5 hours, performed a test flight late evening Jun 20th 2019 and resumed service in the morning of Jun 21st 2019.

Related NOTAM:
A1939/19 NOTAMN
Q) LHCC/QFALC/IV/NBO/A /000/999/4726N01916E005
A) LHBP B) 1906191651 C) 1906191800
E) AERODROME CLOSED. AERODROME WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AS
DEPARTURE/DESTINATION ON EN-ROUTE ALTERNATE AND NOT AVAILABLE FOR
EMERGENCY TRAFFIC.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 19, 2019

Classification
Incident

Airline
Wizz Air

Flight number
W6-2404

Aircraft Registration
HA-LVB

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321-Neo

ICAO Type Designator
A21N

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