THE SIGHT & THE SOUND 2/3 : Farewell flight LTU A330 D-ALPD from Tempelhof to Tempelhof

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Farewell Berlin-Tempelhof !

Farewell LTU !

Farewell Air Berlin !

It was once again one of those sweet invitations of AirEvents Limited, I could not resist.

Sharing a small room in Dusseldorf with my late friend Dieter Ramthun, it was off to a day’s excursion to Berlin-Tempelhof, paying her our tribute and respect one year, before the “Mother of all Airports” would go into history.

LTU has planned nothing less than an Airbus A330-200, used for long-haul routes, to touch historic grounds, with Captain Josef Moser to lead us through the day.

This flight features the second leg, the sightseeing part through poor weather, performing a rather high low pass at Dresden and Leipzig-Halle Airports before returning to Tempelhof.

Landing at Tempelhof Airport is as always nothing short of spectacular, yet not providing a real challenge, neither for machine nor crew.

This version has been improved and remastered and replaces the earlier version, published four years ago, in 2017.

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History of Airbus A330-223 D-ALPD

Airframe 454 was manufactured 2002 and performed her first flight on January 22, 2002, delivered to Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH (LTU), based in Dusseldorf on February 14, 2002 and registered D-ALPD under ILFC ownership.

D-ALPD performed a historic flight to Berlin-Tempelhof on September 8, 2007 chartered by AirEvents Limited.

LTU was acquired by Air Berlin in 2007 and the use of the LTU brand ceased in 2009.

LTU itself was dissolved by April, 2011 and D-ALPD operated for Air Berlin.

The last scheduled flight of Air Berlin took place from Munich to Berlin-Tegel on October 27, 2017.

Air Berlin was closed down and became history on November 1, 2017.

After storage at Zurich on September 25, 2017, D-ALPD was registered EI-GFE under ownership of AerCap Holdings NV on December 13, 2017.

EI-GFE was leased to Wamos Air, Spain and registered EC-MTT on March 5, 2018.

From April 8 to October 30, 2018, EC-MTT was chartered to LATAM Airlines, Chile.

Further charters included operations for Norwegian Air Shuttle on November 28, 2018 and again LATAM Airlines on January 27, 2019.

EC-MTT is reported active operating for Wamos Air.

Flight details

Flight : LT 9000
Date : Saturday, September 8, 2008
Aircraft : A330-223
Registration : D-ALPD
Later Registrations :
EI-GFE (AerCap Holdings NV)
EC-MTT (Wamos Air)
From : Berlin (THF)
To : Berlin (THF)
Take Off : 13.08 h (1108 Z)
Touch down : 14.17 h (1217 Z)
Flying time : 1 hour 9 minutes
Distance : 385 nM / 713 km
Altitude : 1.829 m / 6.000 ft
Speed :
Flight Captain : Moser, Josef
First Officer : Kater, Stefan
Purserette : Molinard, Sabine
Cabin Crew : Holigan
Cabin Crew : Florenco
Cabin Crew : Wallenstein
Cabin Crew : Beier
Cabin Crew : Brenner
Cabin Crew : Milazzo
Cabin Crew : Rebekka