May 30, 2009

A Lufthansa Airbus A340-600, registration D-AIHY performing flight LH-458 from Munich (Germany) to San Francisco,CA (USA), performed a seemingly normal landing on San Francisco’s runway 28L even though the aircraft had to go around on its first approach to runway 28R due to being too high for the approach.

A post flight inspection however revealed damage to the fan blades of engine #2 (inner left) obviously due to a bird strike.

The return flight LH-459 was canceled, the passengers rebooked onto other flights.