Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378

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**Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378**
Summary
Date	2000-07-12
Type	Fuel exhaustion
Site	Vienna, Austria
Fatalities	0
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Airbus A310-304
Operator	Hapag Lloyd
Tail number	D-AHLB
Passengers	142
Crew	8
Survivors	150 (all)

Hapag-Lloyd Flight 3378, registered as D-AHLB, was a commercial Hapag-Lloyd Airlines Airbus A310-304, carrying 142 passengers and 8 crew members from Khania, Greece to Hannover, Germany.

On July 12, 2000 HF-3378 departed at 10:59. The crew noticed that it was not possible to fully retract the landing gear. The pilot decided to try to reach Munich, but the crew calculated the estimated fuel consumption with the Flight Management System (FMS) which was not designed to take half-raised landing gear into account, and did not realize that there was not enough fuel to reach Munich. Around 12:49 an alarm told the crew that there was only 1.3 tons of jet fuel left in the tanks and the pilot redirected the flight again, this time to Vienna. Twenty kilometers short of Vienna the aircraft ran out of fuel. The crew tried to glide the jet to the runway but landed short 500 meters before the tarmac, struck airport equipment coming to a rest off the runway. Some of the passengers were injured (though none seriously), although many were distressed. The aircraft was a writeoff after the crash.