THY A21N at Hanover on Mar 13th 2021, hard landing

Last Update: March 31, 2021 / 22:29:02 GMT/Zulu time

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Photo of THY Turkish Airlines TC-LSB, Airbus A321-Neo — THY Turkish Airlines TC-LSB, Airbus A321-Neo (Photo credit: Alec BHX/KKC / Flickr / License: CC by-sa)

Incident Facts

Date of incident
Mar 13, 2021

Classification
Accident

Cause
Hard landing

Airline
THY Turkish Airlines

Flight number
TK-1553

Departure
Istanbul, Turkey

Destination
Hanover, Germany

Aircraft Registration
TC-LSB

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321-Neo

ICAO Type Designator
A21N

Airport
Hannover Airport, Hannover

Airport ICAO Code
EDDV

A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200N, registration TC-LSB performing flight TK-1553 from Istanbul (Turkey) to Hanover (Germany), landed on Hanover's runway 27R but touched down hard. The aircraft rolled out without further incident and taxied to the apron.

The aircraft was unable to depart for the return flight, which needed to be cancelled. The aircraft is still on the ground in Hanover more than 4 days later (about 100 hours later).

The aircraft was scheduled to perform a gear down ferry flight to Hamburg International for repairs by Lufthansa Technics on Tuesday (Mar 16th), which was cancelled however, and again on Wednesday (Mar 17th), which again was cancelled.

On Monday Mar 15th 2021 a team of THY maintenance engineers arrived in Hanover on a charter flight to enable TC-LSB to ferry to the maintenance based in Hamburg.

One ground observer reported: "A THY TK-1553 A321NEO TC-LSB was approaching from istanbul on the 27R in EDDV. In addition, strong gusts of wind between 30 and 40 knots prevailed at the time. Shortly before touchdown, the aircraft rapidly lost altitude so that it finally hit the runway hard." The observer also reported he heard passengers complain about a "horror landing".

Another ground observer reported, that he was observing from a multi-storey car park when he witnessed a very hard touchdown on runway 27R. A reduction of sink rate was not detectable prior to touch down, there was an unusual amount of smoke upon touch down. At the time of touch down there were strong gusting winds.

According to information The Aviation Herald received the aircraft received substantial damage to the main landing gear as well as the flaps.

On Mar 17th 2021 Germany's BFU reported that 4 days after the occurrence they have not received any information about the occurrence so far.

The airline did not respond to an inquiry by The Aviation Herald.

On Mar 31st 2021 the aircraft was finally able to depart Hanover for a gear down ferry flight TK-6882 to Istanbul's old Ataturk Airport, maximum FL250 was filed, the aircraft reached a maximum FL230.

Metars:
EDDV 131120Z 23014KT 200V260 9999 BKN030 08/03 Q0990 TEMPO 25025G45KT=
EDDV 131050Z 24018KT 9999 FEW030 08/02 Q0991 TEMPO 25025G45KT=
EDDV 131020Z 24018G29KT 9999 FEW018 08/02 Q0991 TEMPO 25025G45KT=
COR EDDV 130950Z 25017G28KT 9999 -RA FEW018 SCT020 08/04 Q0991 TEMPO 25025G45KT=
EDDV 130920Z 21017KT 9999 -RA SCT022 BKN035 08/04 Q0990 BECMG 20025G45KT RA BKN013=
EDDV 130850Z 20016G27KT 170V230 9999 -RA FEW022 SCT035 07/04 Q0991 BECMG 20025G45KT RA BKN013=
EDDV 130820Z 20014KT 160V230 9999 -RA SCT020 BKN035 07/04 Q0991 BECMG 20025G45KT RA BKN013=
EDDV 130750Z 19013KT 160V230 9999 -RA FEW014 BKN035 06/03 Q0992 TEMPO 19020G30KT RA BKN013=
EDDV 130720Z 19013G24KT 150V220 9999 -RA FEW014 SCT020 BKN035 06/04 Q0993 TEMPO 19020G30KT RA BKN013=
EDDV 130650Z 19013KT 9999 -RA FEW013 BKN020 BKN035 05/03 Q0993 TEMPO 19020G30KT RA BKN013=
EDDV 130620Z 19011KT 160V220 9999 -RA FEW013 BKN022 BKN035 05/03 Q0994 BECMG 19015G25KT=