Lufthansa B744 at Frankfurt on Aug 22nd 2015, rejected takeoff after uncommanded yaw
Last Update: August 24, 2015 / 20:53:24 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Aug 22, 2015
Classification
Incident
Cause
Rejected takeoff
Airline
Lufthansa
Flight number
LH-710
Departure
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Destination
Tokyo Narita, Japan
Aircraft Registration
D-ABVS
Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400
ICAO Type Designator
B744
The flight was postponed to the next day. A replacement Boeing 747-400 registration D-ABVR reached Tokyo with a delay of 24 hours.
Passengers reported that the aircraft was accelerating already at high speed when the aircraft sharply veered left and right, immediately afterwards the brakes came on. The aircraft slowed and rolled onto a taxiway stopping there for quite a while. The aircraft was subsequently towed for a few hundred meters before coming to a stop again, near an airport fire station and some distance in front of the airport's terminal number 1. The captain announced turbulence off the preceding departure (a Cathay Boeing 777-300 registration B-KPV performing flight CX-288 from Frankfurt to Hong Kong (China)) had caused the aircraft to be thrown left and right and prompted them to reject takeoff. The brakes overheated, the tyres deflated. About one hour after the rejected takeoff the passengers disembarked onto the taxiway.
Several observers on the ground watching the aftermath reported D-ABVS was stopped with almost all main tyres deflated on taxiway N4 in the passage between hangars near the airport's fire station and straight in front of terminal 1, emergency services were spraying the wheels. Passengers disembarked onto the taixway and were bussed to the terminal. The aircraft remained in that position for at least 5 hours while the tyres/wheels were being replaced on the taxiway.
Metars:
EDDF 221350Z 10010KT 060V150 CAVOK 27/03 Q1017 NOSIG
EDDF 221320Z 10008KT 040V150 CAVOK 27/03 Q1018 NOSIG
EDDF 221250Z 06009KT 340V120 CAVOK 27/04 Q1018 NOSIG
EDDF 221220Z 11011KT 070V140 CAVOK 27/06 Q1018 NOSIG
EDDF 221150Z 08009KT 040V150 CAVOK 25/06 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDF 221120Z 09007KT 020V150 CAVOK 26/06 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDF 221050Z 09007KT 040V140 CAVOK 25/06 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDF 221020Z 09007KT 060V120 CAVOK 24/08 Q1020 NOSIG
EDDF 220950Z 08007KT 020V120 CAVOK 23/09 Q1020 NOSIG
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Aug 22, 2015
Classification
Incident
Cause
Rejected takeoff
Airline
Lufthansa
Flight number
LH-710
Departure
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Destination
Tokyo Narita, Japan
Aircraft Registration
D-ABVS
Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400
ICAO Type Designator
B744
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