| Date: | Tuesday 14 August 1962 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing 720-030B |
| Owner/operator: | Lufthansa |
| Registration: | D-ABOM |
| MSN: | 18060/210 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 51 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | London Airport (LHR) -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Frankfurt International Airport (FRA/EDDF) |
| London Airport (LHR/EGLL) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Boeing 720B passenger plane, D-ABOM, sustained substantial damage in a landing accident at London-Heathrow Airport (LHR).
On final approach to London the crew discovered that the nose landing gear could not be lowered . After going round again the crew tried in vein by all means possible to lower the nose landing gear.
A safe nosegear-up landing was carried out on runway 10L.
PROBABLE CAUSES: "The investigation in London revealed a blockage, at the retracted position of the hydraulic system of the jack for retracting and lowering to nose landing gear; this was caused by foreign bodes (small pieces of rubber totalling about 6 cm2 in area) . The crew, therefore, had no possibility of lowering the landing gear."
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photo (c) Dave Thaxter; London-Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL)
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