Air Cargo Germany Boeing 747 412F incident
Boeing 747 412F · Incident: landing gear collapse while taxiing
From an unrecorded airport to Sary-Arka Airport (KGF)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG10WA052
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Boeing 747 412F
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- D-ACGD
- Operator
- Air Cargo Germany
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Sary-Arka Airport (KGF), Karaganda
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 129: Foreign
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Taxi · into takeoff position
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Landing gear collapse
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
On September 21, 2010, 0930 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an Air Cargo Germany, a Boeing B-747-412F,registered as D-ACGD, was performing a left turn to line up with Runway 25L for take-off 31C at Hong Kong International Airport. Just before finishing the left turn to line up for take-off, the pilots noticed a loud bang sound followed by a slight tilting of the aircraft to the left. The aircraft was disabled on the runway and subsequent inspection confirmed the failure of the outer cylinder of left main landing gear. There were no injuries among the four crew members on board. The airplane was not substantially damaged.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of China. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from: Civil Aviation Department Accident Investigation Division Hong Kong, China 46/F, Queensway Government Offices 66 Queensway, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 29106821 (24 hours) Fax:(852) 29101177 (24 hours) http://www.cad.gov.hk/english/home.html
Email: aid@cad.gov.hk AFTN: VHHHYAYX Cable: 22101 CAXTCN
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of China.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG10WA052
- Event ID
- 20100927X92739
- Case number
- ENG10WA052
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: cause areas. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 8710722bc86a497441b9acb83c5d4bc2d06ddca8a17777fe9f3dd85798591b68; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:22:42.829Z.