Individually Owned: 150,657
Corporate Owned: 137,281
Vienna-Schwechat Airport
Aircraft Accident/Incident Report
Vienna Australia
Wednesday, July 12, 2000 13:33 UTC
NTSB Narrative Summary Released at Completion of Accident
After departure from Khania, Crete, Greece, Hapag-Lloyd flight 3378 an Airbus A310-304, registered as D-AHLB indicated that the right main landing gear showed no uplock indication. After several attempts to stow the gear, the crew commenced the flight to Munich, Germany but determined that there was only enough fuel to make Vienna, Austria .
After declaring an emergency during descent, both engines failed due to fuel starvation. The crew were able to restart one engine for a short period of time.
A forced landing was executed 500 meters short of runway 34 the aircraft impacted the ground and slid about 600 m before stopping. There were no fatalities if the 142 passengers and 8 crew members aboard the aircraft.
This accident was investigated by the AAIB-Austria.
NTSB Probable Cause Narrative
Not Yet Reported
Event Information
| Type of Event | Accident |
| Event Date | 7/12/2000 |
| Event Day of the Week | Wednesday |
| Time of Event | 1333 |
| Event Time Zone | Coordinated Universal Time? Same as GMT |
| Event City | VIENNA |
| Event State | -- |
| Event Country | AUSTRALIA |
| Zipcode of the event site | -- |
| Event Date Year | 2000 |
| Event Date Month | 7 |
| MidAir Collision Indicator | -- |
| On Ground Collision occurred ? | -- |
| Event Location Latitude | -- |
| Event Location Longitude | -- |
| Event Location Airport | Vienna-Schwechat |
| Event Location Nearest Airport ID | VIE |
| Indicates whether the acc/inc occurred off or on an airport | Off Airport/Airstrip |
| Distance from airport in statute miles | 0.25 |
| Degrees magnetic from airport | -- |
| Airport Elevation | -- |
| Weather Briefing Completeness | Unknown |
| Investigator's weather source | Unknown |
| Time of the weather observation | |
| Direction of event from weather observation facility (degrees) | 0 |
| Weather Observation Facility ID | -- |
| Elevation of weather observation facility | 0 |
| Distance of event from weather observation facility (units?) | 0 |
| Time Zone of the weather observation | -- |
| Lighting Conditions | Not Reported |
| Lowest Ceiling Height | -- |
| Lowest Non-Ceiling Height | -- |
| Sky/Lowest/Cloud Conditions | Unknown |
| Sky Condition for Lowest Ceiling | Unknown |
| Visibility Runway Visual Range (Feet) | 0 |
| Visibility Runway Visual Value (Statute Miles) | 0 |
| Visibility (Statute Miles) | 0 |
| Air Temperature at event time (in degrees celsius) | -- |
| Dew Point at event time (in degress fahrenheit) | -- |
| Wind Direction (degrees magnetic) | 0 |
| Variable Wind Indicator | Wind direction could be determined |
| Wind Speed (knots) | 0 |
| Wind Velocity Indicator | -- |
| Wind Gust Indicator | Unknown |
| Wind Gust (knots) | -- |
| Altimeter Setting at event time (in. Hg) | -- |
| Density Altitude (feet) | -- |
| Intensity of Precipitation | -- |
| METAR weather report | -- |
| Event Highest Injury | Minor |
| On Ground, Fatal Injuries | 0 |
| On Ground, Minor Injuries | 0 |
| On Ground, Serious Injuries | 0 |
| Injury Total Fatal | -- |
| Injury Total Minor | 26 |
| Injury Total None | 124 |
| Injury Total Serious | -- |
| Injury Total All | 26 |
| Investigating Agency | Foreign |
| NTSB Docket Number (internal use) | 0 |
| NTSB Notification Source | Austrian AAIB |
| NTSB Notification Date | Jul 14 2000 12:00AM |
| NTSB Notification Time | 0 |
| Fiche Number and/or location -used to find docket information | -- |
| Date of most recent change to record | Aug 21 2003 1:00PM |
| User who most recently changed record | HAUT |
| Basic weather conditions | Visual Meteorological Cond |
| FAA District Office | -- |
Aircraft Involved |
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|---|---|
Aircraft #1 |
|
| Aircraft Registration Number | -- |
| NTSB Number | DCA00WA068 |
| Missing Aircraft Indicator | N |
| Federal Aviation Reg. Part | Non-U.S., Commercial |
| Type of Flight Plan filed | IFR |
| Flight plan Was Activated? | No |
| Damage | Destroyed |
| Aircraft Fire | -- |
| Aircraft Explosion | -- |
| Aircraft Manufacturer's Full Name | Airbus |
| Aircraft Model | A310-304 |
| Aircraft Series Identifier | A310-304 |
| Aircraft Serial Number | 528 |
| Certified Max Gross Weight | -- |
| Aircraft Category | Airplane |
| Aircraft Registration Class | Foreign Reg./Foreign Soil |
| Aircraft is a homebuilt? | No |
| Flight Crew Seats | -- |
| Cabin Crew Seats | -- |
| Passenger Seats | -- |
| Total number of seats on the aircraft | -- |
| Number of Engines | 2 |
| Fixed gear or retractable gear | Retractable |
| Aircraft, Type of Last Inspection | Unknown |
| Date of Last Inspection | -- |
| Airframe hours since last inspection | -- |
| Airframe Hours | -- |
| ELT Installed | Unknown |
| ELT Activated | Unknown |
| ELT Aided Location of Event Site | Unknown |
| ELT Type | -- |
| Aircraft Owner Name | HAPAG LLOYD |
| Aircraft Owner Street Address | -- |
| Aircraft Owner City | -- |
| Aircraft Owner State | -- |
| Aircraft Owner Country | GE |
| Aircraft Owner Zipcode | -- |
| Operator is an individual? | No |
| Operator Name | -- |
| Operator Same as Owner? | No |
| Operator Is Doing Business As | -- |
| Operator Address Same as Owner? | Yes |
| Operator Street Address | -- |
| Operator City | -- |
| Operator State | -- |
| Operator Country | -- |
| Operator Zip code | -- |
| Operator Code | -- |
| Owner has at least one certificate | None |
| Other Operator of large aircraft? | -- |
| Certified for Part 133 or 137 Operation | -- |
| Operator Certificate Number | -- |
| Indicates whether an air carrier operation was scheduled or not | Non-scheduled |
| Indicates Domestic or International Flight | International |
| Operator carrying Pax/Cargo/Mail | Passenger Only |
| Type of Flying (Per_Bus / Primary) | -- |
| Second Pilot on Board | Yes |
| Departure Point Same as Event | No |
| Departure Airport Code | LOWW |
| Departure City | KHANIA Crete |
| Departure State | -- |
| Departure Country | GR |
| Departure Time | 1059 |
| Departure Time Zone | UTC |
| Destination Same as Local Flt | -- |
| Destination Airport Code | EDDV |
| Destination City | HANNOVER |
| Destination State | -- |
| Destination Country | GE |
| Specific Phase of Flight | -- |
| Report sent to ICAO? | -- |
| Evacuation occurred | Yes |
| Date of most recent change to record | Aug 21 2003 1:00PM |
| User who most recently changed record | HAUT |
| Since inspection or accident | -- |
| Event Location Runway Number and Location | 34 |
| Runway Length | -- |
| Runway Width | -- |
| Sight Seeing flight | No |
| Air Medical Flight | No |
| Medical Flight | -- |