By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Jan 8th 2026 17:44Z, last updated Thursday, Jan 8th 2026 17:44Z
A Condor Airbus A330-900, registration D-ANRL performing flight DE-2402 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Toronto,ON (Canada),
was climbing out of Frankfurt's runway 25C when the crew stopped the climb at FL280 reporting a technical problem.
About 4 minutes later the crew advised they had donned their oxygen masks and requested to return to Frankfurt.
Subsequently, about 7 minutes after the decision to return to Frankfurt the crew declared PAN PAN and
requested a parking position on the apron to quickly open the doors after landing.
The aircraft landed safely back on Frankfurt's runway 25C about 55 minutes after departure.
A replacement A330-900 registration D-ANRK reached Toronto with a delay of about 9.5 hours.
The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Frankfurt about 29 hours after landing.
A listener on Maastricht frequency reported: "Condor with callsign CFG402 in Maastrich ATC asked for level off FL280
due to a technical problem at about 1220z. At 1224z they reported that they are using oxygen masks and wanted to return to FRA.
POS was south of EDDV. At 1231z they declared PANPAN and asked for a parking pos in FRA on the apron to open the doors as quick as possible.
Maastrich gave them a direct wayponit DF680, assigned them for RWY 25L and handed them over to Rhine ATC."