An apparatus for facilitating handover failure recovery may include a handover management element configured to receive, at a target node, a handover request from a source node regarding the handover of communications with a mobile terminal. The handover request may include identity information indicative of the mobile terminal. The identity information may be the identity information used to identify the mobile terminal to the source node during establishment of the original connection between the source node and the mobile terminal. The handover management element may be further configured to receive a request for a connection from the mobile terminal subsequent to a radio link failure and prior to handover completion. Based on matching the identity information from the request for connection and the identity information received from the source node, the target node may establish communication with the mobile terminal based on access stratum configuration information used by the source node.