Tunis A320 at Frankfurt on Sep 8th 2012, unsafe gear after departure

Last Update: December 3, 2012 / 17:21:46 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 8, 2012

Classification
Incident

Airline
Tunisair

Flight number
TU-647

Destination
Enfidha, Tunisia

Aircraft Registration
TS-IMC

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

A Tunisair Airbus A320-200, registration TS-IMC performing flight TU-647 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Enfidha (Tunisia), was in the initial climb out of runway 18 when the nose gear doors could not be closed prompting the crew to level off at FL100 and return to Frankfurt for a safe landing on runway 25R about 30 minutes after departure.

Germany's BFU reported in their monthly bulletin that the aircraft needed to be towed to the apron due to nose gear steering being inoperative.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 8, 2012

Classification
Incident

Airline
Tunisair

Flight number
TU-647

Destination
Enfidha, Tunisia

Aircraft Registration
TS-IMC

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

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