2004 Airbus A340-642, c/n 566, D-AIHH, Wiesbaden, Lufthansa

2004 Airbus A340-642, c/n 566, D-AIHH, Wiesbaden, Lufthansa arriving at Gate D55, Concourse D, International Terminal, Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada on Friday, June 29, 2012 at 14:17 PDT

At 14:18 PDT

Lufthansa flight LH 493, non-stop from Vancouver International Airport (YVR/CYVR) to Flughafen Frankfurt am Main (FRA/EDDF), scheduled to depart on Friday, June 29 at 16:00 PDT and arrive on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 11:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time). At 14:53 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time).

Lufthansa flight LH 493 docked at Gate C13, Concourse C, Terminal 1, Flughafen Frankfurt am Main (FRA/EDDF), Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 11:08 CEST

2004 Airbus A340-642, c/n 566, D-AIHH, Wiesbaden, Lufthansa (Deutsche Lufthansa AG dba/Member of STAR ALLIANCE), Köln-Deutz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland, based at Flughafen Frankfurt am Main (FRA/EDDF), Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland

• powered by four 56,000-lbs thrust Rolls-Royce Trent 556-61 high-bypass turbofan engines
• crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration F8C60Y238, long-range wide-body airliner
• winglets
• built by Airbus Industrie, Toulouse-Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France at Colomiers, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées for final assembly, adjacent to Aéroport de Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS/LFBO), Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées
• first flight on January 20, 2004, test registration F-WWCJ
• delivered to Lufthansa on March 12, 2004
• active

[Nikon Coolpix L20 point-and-shoot 10 MP digital camera, Nikkor 38–136-mm f/3.1–6.7 lens]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, June 2012