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Frankfurt am Main (Rhein-Main AB) (FRA / EDDF / FRF)
Germany 7.1986
First Flight 1.1970
Del. 2.1970 to Pan American World Airways - Pan Am N739PA
Written off
"Clipper Maid of the Seas" was destroyed by an inflight bomb explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland, 21.12.88. RIP
Flight PA103 departed London-Heathrow runway 27R for New York at 18:25. The aircraft levelled off at FL310, 31 minutes later. At 19:03 Shanwick Oceanic Control transmitted an oceanic clearance. At that time an explosion occurred in the aircraft's forward cargo hold at position 4L. The explosive forces produced a large hole in the fuselage structure and disrupted the main cabin floor. Major cracks continued to propagate from the large hole while containers and items of cargo ejected through the hole, striking the empennage, left- and right tail plane. The forward fuselage and flight deck area separated when the aircraft was in a nose down and left roll attitude, peeling away to the right at Station 800. The nose section then knocked the no. 3 engine off its pylon. The remaining aircraft disintegrated while it was descending nearly vertically from 19000 feet to 9000 feet. A section of cabin floor and baggage hold (from approx. Station 1241-1920) fell onto housing at Rosebank Terrace, Lockerbie. The main wing structure struck the ground with a high yaw angle at Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie causing a massive fire.
The Semtex bomb which caused the explosion had probably been hidden in a radio cassette player and was transferred to PA103 from a Pan Am Boeing 727 flight, arriving from Frankfurt.
After a three-year joint investigation by the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation indictments for murder were issued on November 13, 1991, against Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer and the head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA), and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, the LAA station manager in Luqa Airport, Malta. United Nations sanctions against Libya and protracted negotiations with the Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi secured the handover of the accused on April 5, 1999.
On January 31, 2001, Megrahi was convicted of murder by a panel of three Scottish judges, and sentenced to 27 years in prison. Fhimah was acquitted.
A6-EFH Emirates Boeing 777-F1H departing via Rwy25C to Atlanta (KATL) @ Frankfurt (EDDF) / 14.05.2015
Woensdag / Wednesday 6 September 2023
Info : phased out at Lufthansa 25-09-2023, now flying for Discovery Airlines
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Registration : D-AIKK - Name : Fürth
Type : Airbus A330-343E
C/N : 896
Build : 2007
Owner : Lufhansa
Flight : EDDF-OMDB, FRA-DXB - LH630
Location : EDDF
TC-JOM Turkish Airlines Airbus A330-302 coming in from Istanbul (IST/LTBA) @ Frankfurt Rhein-Main International (FRA / EDDF) / 13.10.2018
Airline: Asiana Airlines Cargo
Aircraft: Boeing B747-400F
Registration: HL7423
C/n: 25782 / 1115
Time & Location: 30.03.2024, EDDF, Germany
D-ABUA Condor Boeing 767-330(ER)(WL) coming in from Cancun MMUN on Rwy25R @ Frankfurt - Rhein-Main International (FRA / EDDF) / 08.04.2015
The first ever arrival in Germany for the new 777X. Visit to the homebase of the launching customer after Dubai Air Show
Airline: Lufthansa
Aircraft: Boeing B747-8
Registration: D-ABYK
C/n: 37835 / 1480
Time & Location: 31.03.2024, EDDF, Germany