A380-problemer - Curt Lewis

A380 - Farnborough 2010 - Photo: Per Gram Incident: Korean A388 at Paris on Sep 11th 2017, flaps did not fully retract A Korean Air Airbus A380-800, registration HL7613 performing flight KE-902 from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Seoul (South Korea) with 330 passengers, was climbing out of Paris' runway 27L when the crew stopped the climb at FL100 due to a problem with the flaps. The aircraft entered a hold to work the checklists and dump fuel. The aircraft landed safely on Charles de Gaulle's runway 27L at a rather normal speed. The flight was postponed to the next day, the passengers were taken to hotels. A replacement A380-800 registration HL7611 departed Paris the following morning as flight KE-902D and reached Seoul with a delay of 24 hours. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 24 hours after landing back.

Incident: Lufthansa A388 enroute on Sep 11th 2017, engine problem A Lufthansa Airbus A380-800, registration D-AIML performing flight LH-440 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Houston Intercontinental,TX (USA), was enroute at FL340 about 120nm northwest of Reykjavik (Iceland) when the crew decided to return to Frankfurt. The aircraft climbed to FL350 and landed safely back in Frankfurt about 3:15 hours after turning around and about 6.5 hours after departure. One passenger reported they were told that an engine (Trent 970) had been leaking oil but was now okay, maintenance had worked on the engine prior to the flight. Near Iceland the aircraft turned around, no reason was given. Another passenger reported they were returning to Frankfurt due to an engine oil leak.