Delta B744 near Toronto on Jun 30th 2012, unsafe door indication

Last Update: July 3, 2012 / 22:38:24 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 30, 2012

Classification
Incident

Flight number
DL-173

Aircraft Registration
N665US

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400

ICAO Type Designator
B744

A Delta Airlines Boeing 747-400, registration N665US performing flight DL-173 from New York JFK,NY (USA) to Tokyo Narita (Japan), was enroute at FL300 about 190nm north of Toronto,ON (Canada) when the crew received an unsafe door indication and decided to divert to Detroit dumping fuel on the way to Detroit. The aircraft landed safely on Detroit's runway 21R about 80 minutes later.

A replacement Boeing 777-200 registration N863DA reached Tokyo as flight DL-9924 with a delay of 24 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 30, 2012

Classification
Incident

Flight number
DL-173

Aircraft Registration
N665US

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400

ICAO Type Designator
B744

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