Boeing 737 incident near Dortmund, De, January 3, 2010
On January 3, 2010 at about 6:05 am local time, a Boeing 737, registered DABKF, was involved in an incident near Dortmund (Dortmund airport). It was flown under non-U.S. commercial rules. The NTSB record does not give the injuries.
The NTSB's probable cause their words, unchanged
The NTSB has not yet published a probable cause for this incident. Investigations usually take one to two years; this page updates when the final report is released.
Source: NTSB aviation accident database, copy made October 5, 2026. Docket and reports at the NTSB.
What the record shows
- Date
- January 3, 2010 · about 6:05 am local time
- Place
- Dortmund, Germany · Dortmund
- Type
- Incident
- Injuries
- The NTSB record does not give the injuries.
- Weather
- not recorded
- Aircraft
- Boeing 737 86J · all 737s on the register
- Registration
- DABKF · no longer on the register · serial 37745
- Damage
- Not recorded
- Flight
- Flight · non-U.S. commercial rules
The NTSB's narrative preliminary · quoted from the NTSB record
On January 3, 2010, at 0605 UTC, an Air Berlin Boeing 737-86J, registered in Germany as D-ABKF, ran off the end of runway 06 at Dortmund, Germany, during an aborted takeoff. Snow was falling at the time. The takeoff was aborted due to an airspeed indicator anomaly. The airplane was not damaged and no injuries occurred. The event is being investigated as a serious incident by the German Bundesstelle fur Flugunfalluntersuchung (BFU).
The complete narrative as the NTSB published it. The NTSB's docket holds the report as a PDF and any photographs, statements and other documents from the investigation.
The factual record from the NTSB's investigation tables, in plain English
The aircraft
- Landing gear: fixed
- Operator: Air Berlin
Weather at the time
- Temperature: 0°F (-18°C), dew point 0°F (-18°C)
Documents from the investigation the NTSB's docket: the evidence folder behind the report
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Everything on this page comes from the NTSB's public records. The narrative, probable cause and findings are the NTSB's own words; the coded tables behind the report are written out in plain English, with pilots' ages, home towns and medical details left out. The documents and photographs are the NTSB's docket, shown as the NTSB released them. This site's own text never names anyone involved. A preliminary report can change; the final report usually follows one to two years later, and the page is refreshed when it does.