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Deutsche Lufthansa [Aktiengesellschaft () (pronounced International Phonetic Alphabet) is the of largest airlines in Europe
airline in Europe. The name of the company is derived from
Luft (the
German language word for "air"), and
Hansa (after Hanseatic League, the powerful medieval trading group).
The airline is the German
flag carrier and the world's
World's largest airlines, operating services to 200 destinations in 100 countries. Together with its partners Lufthansa services over 410 destinations.
Lufthansa is based in Cologne. Its main base and primary traffic hub is at Frankfurt International Airport in
Frankfurt am Main with a second hub at
Munich International Airport.
Lufthansa is a founding member of Star Alliance, the largest
airline alliance. Star Alliance was formed in 1997 together with
Thai Airways,
United Airlines, Air Canada and
Scandinavian Airline Systems. Star Alliance has now 17 member airlines and 3 regional members. The Lufthansa Group operates more than 400 aircraft and employs nearly 100,000 people worldwide. In 2006, 53.4 million passengers flew with Lufthansa.
History
The company was founded on 6 January
1926 in
Berlin, following a merger between "Deutsche Aero Lloyd" (DAL) and "Junkers (Aircraft) Luftverkehr". Lufthansa Chronicle The company's original name was
Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft. Lufthansa in one word has been used since 1933. On
December 9 1927, Deutsche Luft Hansa, on behalf of the German government, established an agreement with the Spanish government authorizing an air service between the two countries. This included a capital investment to establish an air company that would eventually become
History of Iberia Airlines.
In the years prior to
World War II, the company pioneered routes to the
Far East and across the North Atlantic and the
South Atlantic, using a large fleet of mostly Dornier, Junkers (Aircraft),
Heinkel, Focke-Wulf and other German-designed aircraft. After the outbreak of war in 1939, Lufthansa was only able to maintain service to neutral countries. Early in the war, along with the Italian Transcontinental Airline (
Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane, or LATI), the company competed vigorously in South America. However, all service was suspended by Lufthansa following Germany's defeat in 1945.
Lufthansa was recreated on 6 January
1953 as
Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag) and was renamed
Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft on
August 6 1954. The "new" Lufthansa of 1953 is not the legal successor of the Lufthansa founded in 1926 and which existed during and before World War II. On
1 April 1955 Lufthansa resumed scheduled service within
Germany. International operations started on 15 May
1955, with flights to points in Europe, followed by service to New York on 8 June using
Lockheed Corporation Lockheed Constellation.
South Atlantic routes were resumed in August 1956.
East Germany attempted to establish its own airline in the 1950s using the Lufthansa name, but this resulted in a dispute with
West Germany, where the airline was already operating. East Germany renamed its national airline to Interflug, which ceased operations in 1991. Lufthansa was banned from flying into West Berlin until the demise of the communist regime.
In 1958, Lufthansa placed an order for four
Boeing 707s, used to start jet services from
Frankfurt to New York in March of 1960.
Boeing 720s were later bought to back up the 707 fleet. In February of 1961, Far East routes were extended beyond
Bangkok, Thailand to
Hong Kong and
Tokyo. The cities of Lagos,
Nigeria and Johannesburg,
South Africa were added in 1962.
Lufthansa introduced the
Boeing 727 into service in 1964 and in May of that same year they began the Polar route from Frankfurt to Tokyo. In February of 1965, the company placed an order for twenty-one Boeing 737 medium-haul jets, which were introduced into service in 1968.
Lufthansa was the first customer to purchase and also bought the largest number of Boeing 737 aircraft, and was one of only four buyers of the new 737-100s (the others were NASA,
Malaysia-Singapore Airlines and Avianca - while the NASA airframe was technically the first constructed, it was the last delivered and originally intended for delivery to Lufthansa). In doing so, Lufthansa became the first foreign launch customer for a Boeing commercial plane.
The beginning of the wide-body era for Lufthansa was marked with the inaugural Boeing 747 flight on April 26
1970. In 1971 Lufthansa began service to South America. In 1979, Lufthansa and Swissair were launch customers for the advanced new
Airbus A310, with an order for twenty-five aircraft.
The company's major fleet renovation and modernization programme for the 1990s began on
June 29 1985 with an order for fifteen Airbus A320s and seven
Airbus A300-600s. Ten
Boeing 737-300s were ordered a few days later. All of the aircraft were delivered between 1987 and 1992. Lufthansa also bought
Airbus A321,
Airbus A340 and the Boeing 747-400.
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Lufthansa adopted a new corporate identity in 1988. The fleet was given a new livery while cabins, city offices and airport lounges were redesigned.
On
28 October 1990, 25 days after German reunification, Berlin became a Lufthansa destination again. On 18 May
1997 Lufthansa, Air Canada, Scandinavian Airlines, Thai Airways and
United Airlines formed the Star Alliance, the world's first multilateral
airline alliance.
In 2000
Air One became partner airline of Lufthansa and nearly all Air One flights are code-shared with Lufthansa. In June 2003, Lufthansa opened Terminal 2 at
Munich's Franz Josef Strauß International Airport to relieve its main hub, Frankfurt, which was suffering from capacity constraints. It is one of the first airport terminal in
Europe partially owned by an airline.
On 17 May 2004, Lufthansa became the launch customer for the
Connexion by Boeing in-flight online connectivity service.
On
22 March 2005 Swiss International Air Lines merged with Lufthansa Airlines. The merger included the provision that the majority shareholders (the
Politics of Switzerland and large Swiss companies) be offered payment if Lufthansa's share price outperforms an airline index during the years following the merger. The two companies will continue to be run separately.
On
6 December 2006, Lufthansa placed an order for 20 Boeing
747-8 airliners, becoming the launch customer of the type.
Lufthansa is owned by private investors (88.52%), MGL Gesellschaft für Luftverkehrswerte (10.05%), Deutsche Postbank (1.03%) and Deutsche Bank (0.4%) and has 37,042 employees (at March 2007).
In August 2007, Lufthansa signed a partnership with Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana to expand the flight offering for customers of both companies.{{cite news| url = http://www.andhranews.net/Business/2007/August/21-Lufthansa-Astana-enter-12640.asp| title = Lufthansa and Air Astana to enter into a partnership-->
Subsidiaries
In addition to its main operation, Lufthansa has numerous subsidiaries. The most important are:
- Swiss International Air Lines, an airline based in Zurich owned by Lufthansa
- Lufthansa Cargo, flight logistics company
- Lufthansa Technik, aircraft maintenance providers
- Lufthansa Systems, largest European aviation IT provider
- Lufthansa Regional, a brand operated by an alliance of several small regional airlines, including Lufthansa CityLine
- Lufthansa CityLine, a regional carrier, wholly owned by Lufthansa
- Air Dolomiti, an airline based in Trieste, Italy
- Delvag, an insurance company specializing in air transport
- LSG Sky Chefs, the world's largest airline caterer, which accounts for one third of the world's airline meals
- Lufthansa Flight Training, a provider of flight crew training services to various airlines and the main training arm for the Airline's own pilots
- Condor Airlines, a charter carrier, of which LH holds 24.9%
- Lufthansa holds 13% of Luxair .
- Germanwings, a low-cost subsidiary operating short-haul point-to-point flights from a number of bases in Germany
- Italianwings, a soon to be established low-cost airline based on the Germanwings model
- Lufthansa Commercial Holding, containing over 400 service and finance companies of which Lufthansa holds shares
History of the brand
The Lufthansa logo, an encircled crane (bird) in flight, was created in 1918. It was part of the livery of the first German airline, Deutsche Luftreederei GmbH (DLR), which began air service on 5 February 1919. The stylised crane was designed by Professor Otto Firle. In 1926 Lufthansa adopted this symbol from Aero Lloyd AG, which merged with DLR in 1923. The original creator of the name Lufthansa is believed to be F.A. Fischer von Puturzyn. In 1925 he published a book entitled "Luft-Hansa" which examined the options open to aviation policymakers at the time. Luft Hansa was the name given to the new airline which resulted from the merger of Junkers Luftverkehr AG and Deutscher Aero Lloyd.
Destinations
Fleet
Lufthansa operates the following aircraft as of May 2007:{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse"|+
Lufthansa Fleet|- bgcolor=lightgrey!Aircraft!Total!Passengers
(First/Business*/Economy)!Routes!Notes|-|Airbus A300#A300-600R|14|217*|||-|
Airbus A319-100|36
(15 orders)|156*|||-|[Airbus A320|26
(15 orders)|190*|||-|
Airbus A330#A330-300|10
(5 orders)|221 (8/48/165)|||-|Airbus A340#A340-300 series|28|266 (44/222)
221 (8/48/165)
247 (8/42/197)|||-|Airbus A340#A340-600 series|17
(7 orders)|345 (66/279)
306 (8/60/238)|||-|Airbus A380|(15 orders)
(10 options)|||Entry into service: 2009|-|
BAe 146|18|93*||Operated by Cityline|-|
Boeing 737#737-300|33|127*|||-|
Boeing 737#737-500|30|111*|||-|Boeing 747-400|(20 orders)
(20 options)|||Launch customer
Entry into service: 2010|-|[Bombardier CRJ-100|26|50*||Operated by Cityline|-|
Bombardier CRJ-700|12
(15 orders)|84*||Operated by Cityline|-|[Embraer 190|(30 orders)|||Entry into service: 2008|}
*
First Class is offered aboard some international flights.
*Short haul aircraft base Business Class seating amounts by demand.
As of March 2006, the average age of the Lufthansa fleet was 10.1 years.
In winter 2007, Lufthansa will begin fitting on-demand flight entertainment in all economy class seats of its long-haul aircraft." Lufthansa to roll-out seat-back IFE in economy" Flight Global, 15/08/07.
Lufthansa Cityline
The fleet of Lufthansa Cityline consists of:
Lufthansa Cargo
The fleet of Lufthansa Cargo consists of:
The Lufthansa group holds the third
List_of_largest_airlines#By_fleet_size_in_2007 in the world and is the largest non-American aircraft operator.
Livery
Lufthansa's livery is a
Eurowhite scheme, composed of primarily white with blue and yellow/orange accents.A bare metal livery was proposed during the 1980s, also a yellow tail-belly-engines with silver titles in the late 1980s ( only one 737 and one A310 ever carried this livery).
Accidents
- 1959 (11 January): A Lockheed Constellation crashed shortly before landing at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on a flight from Hamburg, Germany. 36 of 39 people died.
- 1966 (28 January): While trying to go-around after failing to land, Flight 5, a Convair 240, crashed on its flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Bremen (city) during low-visibility conditions. All 46 people on board died.
- 1974 (20 November): Shortly after takeoff, Lufthansa Flight 540, a 747-100 (D-ABYB, named "Hessen") crashed in Nairobi.
- 1993 (14 September): In Warsaw Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320 (D-AIPN, named "Kulmbach"), coming from Frankfurt am Main with 70 people, crashed into an earth wall at the end of the runway. The copilot and a passenger died. A series of events lead to the crash: heavy rain prior to the landing, strong windshear over the airport, meteorological information provided by the tower to the crew was not accurate, pilot error and computer software imperfections.
Lufthansa is 18th in the international JACDEC-Safety-Ranking.
Incidents
- Hull-loss Accidents: 61 with a total of 282 fatalities
- 11 January 1959 - an Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation enroute from Hamburg, Germany crashed into the beach in Rio de Janeiro while descending in heavy rain. 36 people died, 3 survived.
- 28 January 1966 - Lufhansa Flight 005, an Convair 240 crashed on landing approach in bad weather and low visibility in Bremen Airport. All 46 passengers and crew on board lost their lives.
- 20 November 1974 – Lufthansa Flight 540, an Boeing 747 crashed shortly after take-off in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. 59 of 157 on board lost their lives. This was the first crash of a Boeing 747.
- 26 July 1979 - Lufthansa Cargo Flight 527, an Boeing 707-330C crashed after take-off in Rio de Janeiro, killing 3 crew members.
- 7 July 1999 - Lufthansa Cargo India Flight 8533, an Boeing 727-200F, crashed after take-off in Tribhuvan International Airport, killing 5 crew members.
- Hijackings
- 13 October 1977 - Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737, was hijacked and the captain murdered, but all other crew members and all the passengers were freed safely when a GSG 9 (GSG 9) stormed the aircraft in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- Other occurrences
- 25 March 2007 - Lufthansa Flight 584, (SK3585/UA8910) enroute Frankfurt International Airport - Cairo International Airport made an emergency landing in Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, Serbia due to smoke coming from one of the onboard cabin systems. 213 passengers and 11 crew were onboard the Airbus A300-600 aircraft with only one passenger needing to be treated for smoke inhalation and breathing difficulties.
See also
External links
References
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Cologne, Germany), Stefan Lauer (), Stephan Gemkow ([CFO)]
Munich International Airport|focus_cities=Düsseldorf International Airport
Hamburg Airport|frequent_flyer=Miles & More|fleet_size=319 (+ 145 orders + 30 options); Lufthansa AG including Cityline, Cargo & subsidiaries (except Swiss International Airlines): 432|destinations=188|company_slogan=There's No Better Way to Fly|website= http://www.lufthansa.de|-->
Deutsche Lufthansa [Aktiengesellschaft () (pronounced International Phonetic Alphabet) is the of largest airlines in Europe airline in Europe. The name of the company is derived from
Luft (the German language word for "air"), and
Hansa (after
Hanseatic League, the powerful medieval trading group).
The airline is the German flag carrier and the world's
World's largest airlines, operating services to 200 destinations in 100 countries. Together with its partners Lufthansa services over 410 destinations.
Lufthansa is based in Cologne. Its main base and primary traffic hub is at
Frankfurt International Airport in
Frankfurt am Main with a second hub at Munich International Airport.
Lufthansa is a founding member of
Star Alliance, the largest
airline alliance. Star Alliance was formed in 1997 together with Thai Airways,
United Airlines,
Air Canada and
Scandinavian Airline Systems. Star Alliance has now 17 member airlines and 3 regional members. The Lufthansa Group operates more than 400 aircraft and employs nearly 100,000 people worldwide. In 2006, 53.4 million passengers flew with Lufthansa.
History
The company was founded on 6 January
1926 in Berlin, following a merger between "Deutsche Aero Lloyd" (DAL) and "Junkers (Aircraft) Luftverkehr". Lufthansa Chronicle The company's original name was
Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft. Lufthansa in one word has been used since 1933. On
December 9 1927, Deutsche Luft Hansa, on behalf of the German government, established an agreement with the Spanish government authorizing an air service between the two countries. This included a capital investment to establish an air company that would eventually become
History of Iberia Airlines.
In the years prior to World War II, the company pioneered routes to the Far East and across the
North Atlantic and the South Atlantic, using a large fleet of mostly
Dornier,
Junkers (Aircraft),
Heinkel, Focke-Wulf and other German-designed aircraft. After the outbreak of war in 1939, Lufthansa was only able to maintain service to
neutral countries. Early in the war, along with the Italian Transcontinental Airline (
Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane, or LATI), the company competed vigorously in
South America. However, all service was suspended by Lufthansa following Germany's defeat in 1945.
Lufthansa was recreated on 6 January 1953 as
Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag) and was renamed
Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft on August 6 1954. The "new" Lufthansa of 1953 is not the legal successor of the Lufthansa founded in 1926 and which existed during and before World War II. On
1 April 1955 Lufthansa resumed scheduled service within Germany. International operations started on 15 May
1955, with flights to points in Europe, followed by service to New York on 8 June using
Lockheed Corporation Lockheed Constellation. South Atlantic routes were resumed in August 1956.
East Germany attempted to establish its own airline in the 1950s using the Lufthansa name, but this resulted in a dispute with
West Germany, where the airline was already operating. East Germany renamed its national airline to
Interflug, which ceased operations in 1991. Lufthansa was banned from flying into
West Berlin until the demise of the communist regime.
In 1958, Lufthansa placed an order for four Boeing 707s, used to start jet services from Frankfurt to New York in March of 1960. Boeing 720s were later bought to back up the 707 fleet. In February of 1961, Far East routes were extended beyond
Bangkok,
Thailand to
Hong Kong and
Tokyo. The cities of
Lagos,
Nigeria and
Johannesburg,
South Africa were added in 1962.
Lufthansa introduced the
Boeing 727 into service in 1964 and in May of that same year they began the Polar route from Frankfurt to Tokyo. In February of 1965, the company placed an order for twenty-one Boeing 737 medium-haul jets, which were introduced into service in 1968.
Lufthansa was the first customer to purchase and also bought the largest number of Boeing 737 aircraft, and was one of only four buyers of the new 737-100s (the others were
NASA,
Malaysia-Singapore Airlines and
Avianca - while the NASA airframe was technically the first constructed, it was the last delivered and originally intended for delivery to Lufthansa). In doing so, Lufthansa became the first foreign launch customer for a Boeing commercial plane.
The beginning of the
wide-body era for Lufthansa was marked with the inaugural
Boeing 747 flight on April 26 1970. In 1971 Lufthansa began service to South America. In 1979, Lufthansa and Swissair were launch customers for the advanced new Airbus A310, with an order for twenty-five aircraft.
The company's major fleet renovation and modernization programme for the 1990s began on June 29
1985 with an order for fifteen
Airbus A320s and seven Airbus A300-600s. Ten Boeing 737-300s were ordered a few days later. All of the aircraft were delivered between 1987 and 1992. Lufthansa also bought Airbus A321,
Airbus A340 and the Boeing 747-400.
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Lufthansa adopted a new corporate identity in 1988. The fleet was given a new livery while cabins, city offices and airport lounges were redesigned.
On
28 October 1990, 25 days after
German reunification, Berlin became a Lufthansa destination again. On
18 May 1997 Lufthansa, Air Canada, Scandinavian Airlines,
Thai Airways and United Airlines formed the Star Alliance, the world's first multilateral airline alliance.
In 2000
Air One became partner airline of Lufthansa and nearly all Air One flights are code-shared with Lufthansa. In June 2003, Lufthansa opened Terminal 2 at Munich's Franz Josef Strauß International Airport to relieve its main hub, Frankfurt, which was suffering from capacity constraints. It is one of the first
airport terminal in Europe partially owned by an airline.
On
17 May 2004, Lufthansa became the launch customer for the Connexion by Boeing in-flight online connectivity service.
On
22 March 2005 Swiss International Air Lines merged with Lufthansa Airlines. The merger included the provision that the majority shareholders (the Politics of Switzerland and large Swiss companies) be offered payment if Lufthansa's share price outperforms an airline index during the years following the merger. The two companies will continue to be run separately.
On
6 December 2006, Lufthansa placed an order for 20 Boeing 747-8 airliners, becoming the launch customer of the type.
Lufthansa is owned by private investors (88.52%), MGL Gesellschaft für Luftverkehrswerte (10.05%), Deutsche Postbank (1.03%) and Deutsche Bank (0.4%) and has 37,042 employees (at March 2007).
In August 2007, Lufthansa signed a partnership with
Kazakhstan flag carrier
Air Astana to expand the flight offering for customers of both companies.{{cite news| url = http://www.andhranews.net/Business/2007/August/21-Lufthansa-Astana-enter-12640.asp| title = Lufthansa and Air Astana to enter into a partnership-->
Subsidiaries
In addition to its main operation, Lufthansa has numerous subsidiaries. The most important are:
- Swiss International Air Lines, an airline based in Zurich owned by Lufthansa
- Lufthansa Cargo, flight logistics company
- Lufthansa Technik, aircraft maintenance providers
- Lufthansa Systems, largest European aviation IT provider
- Lufthansa Regional, a brand operated by an alliance of several small regional airlines, including Lufthansa CityLine
- Lufthansa CityLine, a regional carrier, wholly owned by Lufthansa
- Air Dolomiti, an airline based in Trieste, Italy
- Delvag, an insurance company specializing in air transport
- LSG Sky Chefs, the world's largest airline caterer, which accounts for one third of the world's airline meals
- Lufthansa Flight Training, a provider of flight crew training services to various airlines and the main training arm for the Airline's own pilots
- Condor Airlines, a charter carrier, of which LH holds 24.9%
- Lufthansa holds 13% of Luxair .
- Germanwings, a low-cost subsidiary operating short-haul point-to-point flights from a number of bases in Germany
- Italianwings, a soon to be established low-cost airline based on the Germanwings model
- Lufthansa Commercial Holding, containing over 400 service and finance companies of which Lufthansa holds shares
History of the brand
The Lufthansa logo, an encircled
crane (bird) in flight, was created in 1918. It was part of the livery of the first German airline, Deutsche Luftreederei GmbH (DLR), which began air service on 5 February
1919. The stylised crane was designed by Professor Otto Firle. In 1926 Lufthansa adopted this symbol from Aero Lloyd AG, which merged with DLR in 1923. The original creator of the name Lufthansa is believed to be F.A. Fischer von Puturzyn. In 1925 he published a book entitled "Luft-Hansa" which examined the options open to aviation policymakers at the time. Luft Hansa was the name given to the new airline which resulted from the merger of Junkers Luftverkehr AG and Deutscher Aero Lloyd.
Destinations
Fleet
Lufthansa operates the following aircraft as of May 2007:{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse"|+
Lufthansa Fleet|- bgcolor=lightgrey!Aircraft!Total!Passengers
(First/Business*/Economy)!Routes!Notes|-|Airbus A300#A300-600R|14|217*|||-|Airbus A319-100|36
(15 orders)|156*|||-|[Airbus A320|26
(15 orders)|190*|||-|Airbus A330#A330-300|10
(5 orders)|221 (8/48/165)|||-|
Airbus A340#A340-300 series|28|266 (44/222)
221 (8/48/165)
247 (8/42/197)|||-|Airbus A340#A340-600 series|17
(7 orders)|345 (66/279)
306 (8/60/238)|||-|Airbus A380|(15 orders)
(10 options)|||Entry into service: 2009|-|BAe 146|18|93*||Operated by Cityline|-|
Boeing 737#737-300|33|127*|||-|
Boeing 737#737-500|30|111*|||-|
Boeing 747-400|(20 orders)
(20 options)|||Launch customer
Entry into service: 2010|-|[Bombardier CRJ-100|26|50*||Operated by Cityline|-|
Bombardier CRJ-700|12
(15 orders)|84*||Operated by Cityline|-|[Embraer 190|(30 orders)|||Entry into service: 2008|}
*
First Class is offered aboard some international flights.
*Short haul aircraft base Business Class seating amounts by demand.
As of March 2006, the average age of the Lufthansa fleet was 10.1 years.
In winter 2007, Lufthansa will begin fitting on-demand flight entertainment in all economy class seats of its long-haul aircraft." Lufthansa to roll-out seat-back IFE in economy" Flight Global, 15/08/07.
Lufthansa Cityline
The fleet of Lufthansa Cityline consists of:
Lufthansa Cargo
The fleet of Lufthansa Cargo consists of:
The Lufthansa group holds the third List_of_largest_airlines#By_fleet_size_in_2007 in the world and is the largest non-American aircraft operator.
Livery
Lufthansa's livery is a
Eurowhite scheme, composed of primarily white with blue and yellow/orange accents.A bare metal livery was proposed during the 1980s, also a yellow tail-belly-engines with silver titles in the late 1980s ( only one 737 and one A310 ever carried this livery).
Accidents
- 1959 (11 January): A Lockheed Constellation crashed shortly before landing at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on a flight from Hamburg, Germany. 36 of 39 people died.
- 1966 (28 January): While trying to go-around after failing to land, Flight 5, a Convair 240, crashed on its flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Bremen (city) during low-visibility conditions. All 46 people on board died.
- 1974 (20 November): Shortly after takeoff, Lufthansa Flight 540, a 747-100 (D-ABYB, named "Hessen") crashed in Nairobi.
- 1993 (14 September): In Warsaw Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320 (D-AIPN, named "Kulmbach"), coming from Frankfurt am Main with 70 people, crashed into an earth wall at the end of the runway. The copilot and a passenger died. A series of events lead to the crash: heavy rain prior to the landing, strong windshear over the airport, meteorological information provided by the tower to the crew was not accurate, pilot error and computer software imperfections.
Lufthansa is 18th in the international JACDEC-Safety-Ranking.
Incidents
- Hull-loss Accidents: 61 with a total of 282 fatalities
- 11 January 1959 - an Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation enroute from Hamburg, Germany crashed into the beach in Rio de Janeiro while descending in heavy rain. 36 people died, 3 survived.
- 28 January 1966 - Lufhansa Flight 005, an Convair 240 crashed on landing approach in bad weather and low visibility in Bremen Airport. All 46 passengers and crew on board lost their lives.
- 20 November 1974 – Lufthansa Flight 540, an Boeing 747 crashed shortly after take-off in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. 59 of 157 on board lost their lives. This was the first crash of a Boeing 747.
- 26 July 1979 - Lufthansa Cargo Flight 527, an Boeing 707-330C crashed after take-off in Rio de Janeiro, killing 3 crew members.
- 7 July 1999 - Lufthansa Cargo India Flight 8533, an Boeing 727-200F, crashed after take-off in Tribhuvan International Airport, killing 5 crew members.
- Hijackings
- 13 October 1977 - Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737, was hijacked and the captain murdered, but all other crew members and all the passengers were freed safely when a GSG 9 (GSG 9) stormed the aircraft in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- Other occurrences
- 25 March 2007 - Lufthansa Flight 584, (SK3585/UA8910) enroute Frankfurt International Airport - Cairo International Airport made an emergency landing in Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, Serbia due to smoke coming from one of the onboard cabin systems. 213 passengers and 11 crew were onboard the Airbus A300-600 aircraft with only one passenger needing to be treated for smoke inhalation and breathing difficulties.
See also
External links
References
Lufthansa Website
UK section of Lufthansa airlines website
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