Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines are temporarily suspending their flights to Tehran. The background is an incident that occurred on October 27, 2022 around flight LH340, which was operated with the Airbus A300-601 D-AIGW.
According to an internal report, a routine check was carried out on the D-AIGW after landing from Iran in Frankfurt am Main. A dead person was found in an unspecified landing gear shaft. The Airbus A340-300 previously operated Lufthansa flight LH601 from the capital of Iran to the Kranich main hub in Germany.
For several weeks now, the security situation in the largely isolated state has been considered to be severely strained. Protests directed against the regime are broken up quite brutally. The so-called “moral police” repeatedly make questionable arrests. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini has sparked protests.
Various countries, including Germany, have issued travel warnings for Iran due to the unstable situation. Until the circumstances have been fully clarified and around LH601, Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa will temporarily no longer fly to Iran.
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