This past Sunday was an unlucky date for the United Kingdom’s busiest hub: London Heathrow Airport (LHR). The events that caused so many travel headaches at Heathrow were quite dramatic, owing to a 170 mph tail strike involving an arriving widebody twinjet operating a cargo flight.

The DHL freighter jet that unfortunately scraped the tarmac during its go-around was arriving from Leipzig, Germany, as cameras caught the incident on tape. The landing approach was unstable when the plane came in on the ill-fated first attempt, but the jet did make a safe touchdown on its next attempt.

A Rough Sunday For DHL

The DHL jet that struck its tail on Heathrow’s runway 09L was an Airbus A300-600 , registered as D-AEAG, and was operating the flight QY2212 , according to The Aviatio

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