Lufthansa A319 near Nuremberg on May 15th 2012, lightning strike
Last Update: May 16, 2012 / 10:52:47 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 15, 2012
Cause
Lightning strike
Airline
Lufthansa
Flight number
LH-696
Departure
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Destination
Erbil, Iraq
Aircraft Registration
D-AIBA
Aircraft Type
Airbus A319
ICAO Type Designator
A319
A replacement Airbus A319-100 registration D-AILU reached Erbil with a delay of 3 hours.
The incident aircraft is still on the ground 24 hours later.
At the time of the incident a frontal system stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea was moving across Germany from west to east with embedded thunderstorms in the area around Nuremberg.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 15, 2012
Cause
Lightning strike
Airline
Lufthansa
Flight number
LH-696
Departure
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Destination
Erbil, Iraq
Aircraft Registration
D-AIBA
Aircraft Type
Airbus A319
ICAO Type Designator
A319
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