Lufthansa flight #LH402 departed Frankfurt Monday, October 21 2024 at 12:20 CEST to Newark.

The Boeing 747-800 (registration D-ABYK) climbed to 29,000 ft then 33,000 ft over the North Sea before crossing the Atlantic.

The aircraft turned around near Greenland. ATC vectored the flight to Keflavik International Airport, Iceland.

The 11 year old aircraft landed on runway 01, 4 hours and 43 minutes after departure due to a medical emergency.

The return flight #LH403 was cancelled. The aircraft is still at the airport in Iceland.

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The flight #LH402 departed Frankfurt Monday, September 2 2024 for a 8-hour flight to Newark.

But after 7 hours into the flight, while on approach to EWR, The Boeing 747 (registration D-ABYL) was put on hold at 14,000 ft.

The aircraft then climbed back to 15,000 ft and was vectored to Boston due to a radar outage at Newark. It landed at 17:45 at BOS.

The super jumbo departed almost 2 hours later to reach Newark after a one-hour flight.

Outage apparently had to do with the radar feed. The FAA actually moved the EWR area of the New York TRACON to the Philadelphia TRACON at the end of July.

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