Another heavy airliner damaged lights on the same Munich runway only days after Boeing 787 incident

German aviation safety authorities opened an investigation after a Lufthansa Airbus A380 damaged runway approach lighting while landing at Munich Airport on Monday, August 17—an event that followed a similar incident on the same runway strip only 48 hours earlier. Flight LH459, carrying 351 passengers and crew from San Francisco (SFO), approached Munich Runway 26L around 5:10 p.m. local time after a 10-hour crossing. Preliminary reports say the aircraft (registration D-AIML) touched down short of the threshold; its landing gear struck and damaged several runway lights on the paved chevron area ahead of the main landing zone. The jet remained controllable, taxied to its gate, and no injuries were reported. The BFU is recovering FDR and CVR, while officials warn against linking the two cases, noting one involved landing damage and the other takeoff departure issues from a Boeing 787-9 on August 15.