Lufthansa plane in Changi scare

Lufthansa plane in Changi scare

SINGAPORE (AP): A Lufthansa plane carrying 73 passengers and crew members made an emergency landing at Singapore's Changi Airport on Thursday after damaging its landing gear on takeoff.

"While it was taking off, it apparently hit the open cover of a runway light, so this caused some damage to the landing gear," Lufthansa senior corporate communications executive Ian de Souza said.

No one was hurt in the incident, he said.

Bound for Frankfurt, the Airbus A-340 plane left Singapore at 11:20 a.m. (10:20 a.m. Jakarta time), but flew for some time before the pilots realized there was a problem, de Souza said.

After the pilots concluded that the landing gear was damaged, they returned to Singapore and dumped their fuel over the sea before the emergency landing at 1:35 p.m., he said.