A Turkish Airlines A321neo suffered a tail strike during landing attempt today at Dublin

Category: Europe Incident Ireland
Author: Melanie Kraft

Airline: Turkish Airlines
Aircraft: Airbus A321-271NX
A Turkish Airlines A321neo suffered a tail strike on landing attempt. Credit: jdspotting/Instagram

A Turkish Airlines flight performed a go around this morning at Dublin Airport after the aircraft suffered a tail strike on landing attempt.

The Turkish Airlines flight TK1973 from Istanbul was scheduled to land in Dublin at 12:35 IST.

The plane attempted to land on runway 28L at Dublin airport this morning when the incident occurred at 12:03.

Turkish Airlines flight TK1973

For a reason unknown the Airbus 321neo (registration TC-LTG) suffered a tail strike. Pilots performed a go around and landed safely 16 minutes later.

https://twitter.com/Shauns_Aviation/status/1940019665373192521

The weather at Dublin was perfectly clear during the event with visibility over 10 km and a light crosswind of 9 kt at 030.

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