Lufthansa B744 near Ufa on Apr 18th 2012, smoke in cabin
Last Update: April 20, 2012 / 11:03:59 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Apr 18, 2012
Cause
Smoke in cabin
Airline
Lufthansa
Flight number
LH-729
Departure
Shanghai, China
Destination
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Aircraft Registration
D-ABVS
Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400
ICAO Type Designator
B744
The airline's website estimated the flight to depart Ufa at 04:45L Apr 19th and continue to Moscow Domodedovo (Russia), those flights were all cancelled on Apr 19th. The website then did not show how the passengers would get to Frankfurt.
Lufthansa dispatched two Airbus A320-200, registration D-AIZJ and D-AIQB, from Moscow to Ufa as flights LH-9875 and LH-9879, which arrived in Ufa around 11:30L (05:30Z), the aircraft are currently enroute as flights LH-9877 and LH-9881 obviously heading for Germany, current position (11:00Z) already over Belarus 270nm west of Moscow. D-AIZJ landed on Frankfurt's runway 25C at 15:08L (13:08Z) and D-AIQB on runway 25C at 15:21L (13:21Z) delivering the passengers to Frankfurt with a total delay of about 20.5 hours.
The incident aircraft positioned to Germany on Apr 20th leaving Ufa about 44 hours after landing.
The airline reported the aircraft diverted because of an unusual odour on board adding later that the source of the smell was identified to be an overheating lamp in the crew rest bunk.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Apr 18, 2012
Cause
Smoke in cabin
Airline
Lufthansa
Flight number
LH-729
Departure
Shanghai, China
Destination
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Aircraft Registration
D-ABVS
Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400
ICAO Type Designator
B744
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