Lufthansa German Airlines Boeing 747 430 incident
Boeing 747 430 · Incident
From Frankfurt Main Airport (FRA) to Buenos Aires
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG11WA004
- 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 747 430
- 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-ABVM
- Operator
- Lufthansa German Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Frankfurt Main Airport (FRA), Frankfurt Main (FRA)To Buenos Aires
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On November 26, 2010, 2250 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a Lufthansa German Airlines Boeing B-747-430,registered as D-ABVM, was taxiing at Frankfurt Main International Airport, when the right hand main landing gear failed. The aircraft was disabled on the taxiway and the subsequent inspection confirmed the failure of the outer cylinder of right main landing gear. There were no injuries to the crew members or the passengers on board. The airplane was not substantially damaged.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Germany. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung (BFU)
BFU Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung Hermann-Blenk-Straße 16 38108 Braunschweig Germany
Tel: (int.) +49 531 3548 - 0 Fax:(int.) +49 531 3548 - 246 e-mail: box@bfu-web.de
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG11WA004
- Event ID
- 20101130X41530
- Case number
- ENG11WA004
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- 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: coordinates. 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: 28aaad1339202b5bdf6a546512bd2aa720077078e2566488d941b007ce328e32; retrieved 2026-09-15T15:35:32.323Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: operator. The NTSB narrative names the operator: "a Lufthansa German Airlines Boeing B-747-430,registered as D-ABVM, was taxiing at Frankfurt Main International Airport"