American B752 at Boston on Apr 19th 2013, "rocky departure" takes out Lufthansa A346

Last Update: April 20, 2013 / 05:34:11 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Apr 19, 2013

Classification
Incident

Flight number
AA-2289

Aircraft Registration
N646AA

Aircraft Type
Boeing 757-200

ICAO Type Designator
B752

An American Airlines Boeing 757-200, registration N646AA performing flight AA-2289 from Boston,MA to Dallas Ft. Worth,TX (USA), was departing Boston's runway 22R ahead of a Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 registration D-AIHI after Lufthansa had advised they needed 2 more minutes for departure to read their checklists. While the American got airborne the Lufthansa crew advised they needed to return to the gate reporting a rock off the departing American had smashed their right hand side cockpit window later adding cabin crew reported a number of cabin windows and right hand doors were hit and damaged as well. The Airbus was instructed to taxi onto the runway, taxi down the runway and return to the gate. The American climbed out and reached Dallas safely and on schedule.

D-AIHI, performing flight LH-423 from Boston to Frankfurt/Main (Germany), returned to the gate and was able to depart 90 minutes later. The aircraft landed safely in Frankfurt with a delay of 45 minutes.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Apr 19, 2013

Classification
Incident

Flight number
AA-2289

Aircraft Registration
N646AA

Aircraft Type
Boeing 757-200

ICAO Type Designator
B752

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