Lufthansa A343 at Frankfurt on Mar 14th 2022, door open indication

Last Update: March 28, 2022 / 14:18:01 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Mar 14, 2022

Classification
Incident

Airline
Lufthansa

Flight number
LH-772

Aircraft Registration
D-AIGS

Aircraft Type
Airbus A340-300

ICAO Type Designator
A343

A Lufthansa Airbus A340-300, registration D-AIGS performing flight LH-772 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Bangkok (Thailand), was in the initial climb out of Frankfurt's runway 18 when the crew received a door open indication. The crew continued the climb slowly and levelled off at FL110 initially to dump fuel, later climbing to FL130 and FL150 while dumping fuel. The aircraft subsequently landed safely on Frankfurt's runway 07C about 2 hours after departure.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Frankfurt about 34 hours after landing back.

On Mar 28th 2022 The Aviation Herald received information that there was an indication the left center gear door remained open due to a fauly left hand center gear actuator.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Mar 14, 2022

Classification
Incident

Airline
Lufthansa

Flight number
LH-772

Aircraft Registration
D-AIGS

Aircraft Type
Airbus A340-300

ICAO Type Designator
A343

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