In continued Lufthansa news, it has emerged that one of their aircraft has had two incidents in Frankfurt in less than 12 hours.
Information has been released pertinent to these two incidents at hand, courtesy of The Aviation Herald (Check them out!).
D-ACNX was the aircraft involved in the two incidents.
As per data from Planespotters.net, D-ACNX is a 13.9 year old Bombardier CRJ-900 that was delivered to the Group back in June 2011.
Of the CRJ-900 variant, the German carrier has 24 of them in their fleet.
Furthermore, 17 of them are in active service, with seven of them parked.
Without further ado, let’s get into the two incidents.
Incident #1: Lufthansa Flight LH1390 Frankfurt-Poznan…
Incident #1 involved Lufthansa flight LH1390 from Frankfurt to Poznan on April 21st.
The CRJ-900 departed the German airport at 2132 local time that evening, and initially climbed out to the Polish destination.
However, not long into the flight, the aircraft made a u-turn and subsequent return back to it’s origin field.
The aircraft was only in the air for a total of 31 minutes, with that flight cancelled as a result.
Moreover, The Aviation Herald reports that this was due to a pressurisation problem causing a noisy door.
As a result, D-ACNX was grounded overnight for repairs before being allowed back into service the next morning.
Incident #2: LH1220 Frankfurt-Salzburg…
For Lufthansa and D-ACNX, matters got worse the next morning when the aircraft was trying to operate LH1220 from Frankfurt to Salzburg.
The CRJ-900 departed the German airport at 0644 local time on April 22nd, and initially climbed out to the Austrian airport.
However, yet again, an issue was identified with the aircraft, prompting a speedy return back to the German airport.
With an exact same air time as Incident #1 of 31 minutes, the aircraft landed safely again without further incident.
Once again, as confirmed by The Aviation Herald, this was due to cabin pressurisation problems.
The aircraft was grounded for the rest of the day for repairs.
On April 23rd, the aircraft performed a test flight as LH9933, before being given the all-clear to fly again.
That same day, the aircraft operated LH1390 to Poznan once again, and this time safely.
The aircraft has remained in commercial service following the two incidents, with the issue considered rectified.
Quite The Week for the German Carrier…
With these two incidents in mind, it has been quite the week for Lufthansa already in Frankfurt.
On April 23rd, a Lufthansa Airbus A380 bound for Munich from Los Angeles had to divert to Boston due to an Apple iPad getting stuck in a seat.
Then, earlier tonight (April 24th), one of their Airbus A320neo aircraft originating from London Heathrow declared an emergency on the descent into Munich.
This will no doubt be a week that the German carrier will look to forget, following this swathe of incidents.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to this week’s incidents, we will update you accordingly.
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