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| Date: | Sunday 4 June 2017 |
| Time: | 01:13 LT |
| Type: |  Boeing 747-458 |
| Owner/operator: | El Al Israel Airlines |
| Registration: | 4X-ELB |
| MSN: | 26056/1032 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1994 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV/LLBG) -
 Israel
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV/LLBG) |
| New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport, NY (JFK/KJFK) | |
| Investigating agency: | AIAI |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
EL AL flight LY27 took off from runway 26 at Ben-Gurion International Airport on a flight to New York.
During the initial climb, the crew detected a loud noise and vibration, but could not locate the source. Immediately after take-off, the XSIGHT FOD detection system at Ben-Gurion International Airport identified and alerted foreign objects on the runway and a crew was sent to the site. They found several large tire parts, originating from flight LY27. After an hour and a quarter of the flight, when the plane was already over Turkey, a decision was made to return to land at Ben-Gurion airport, due to the fear of structural damage to the plane.
The damage to the tire was consistent with a flange nut, but this could not be established with certainty because the object responsible for the damage was not located.
Sources:
http://aiai.mot.gov.il/REPORT/RAI_28-17.pdf
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/4x-elb#d9cfb70
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Aug-2017 19:14 | harro | Added |
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