Lufthansa A346 at San Francisco on Oct 9th 2019, continuous engine problem

Last Update: October 10, 2019 / 21:22:04 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 9, 2019

Classification
Incident

Airline
Lufthansa

Flight number
LH-459

Departure
San Francisco, United States

Destination
Munich, Germany

Aircraft Registration
D-AIHD

Aircraft Type
Airbus A340-600

ICAO Type Designator
A346

A Lufthansa Airbus A340-600, registration D-AIHD performing flight LH-459 from San Francisco,CA (USA) to Munich (Germany) with 238 people on board, was climbing out of San Francisco's runway 28L when at hand off to departure an intermittent ringing bell could be heard in the background of the transmission contacting depature. The crew subsequently reported they had a recurring problem with engine #1 (Trent 556) and stopped the climb at 5000 feet. When departure queried wheher they wanted to remain in the SFO area, an intermittent ringing bell could be heard in the background of the crew response advising they had continuous engine problems. They reduced the engine to idle and dumped fuel. Departure control queried whether this could be the result of a bird strike, the crew stated they didn't know, they can't rule a bird strike out. The aircraft returned to San Francisco for a safe landing on runway 28R about 65 minutes after departure.

The flight was cancelled.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in San Francisco about 17 hours after landing back.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 9, 2019

Classification
Incident

Airline
Lufthansa

Flight number
LH-459

Departure
San Francisco, United States

Destination
Munich, Germany

Aircraft Registration
D-AIHD

Aircraft Type
Airbus A340-600

ICAO Type Designator
A346

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