Air Berlin – Dusseldorf – 2011
On December 23rd, 2011, an Air Berlin Airbus A330-200, registration D-ALPG performing flight AB-7150 from Dusseldorf (Germany) to Bangkok (Thailand), was climbing out of Dusseldorf when the crew received an unsafe gear indication after retracting the gear and levelled off at FL100 for about one hour. The crew subsequently decided to continue the flight and climbed to FL370. Upon reaching the Black Sea about 140nm north of Istanbul the crew decided to divert to Istanbul’s Ataturk reporting a technical fault and landed safely on runway 35L about 3:40 hours after departure.
Air Berlin A332 at Dusseldorf and Istanbul on Dec 23rd 2011, unsafe gear
