Airbus said a wing of a 550-seat A380, the world's biggest commercial aircraft, snapped during a static test. The incident will not delay the first deliveries due by the end of the year. Airbus ...
A work light left behind inside the wing of a Qantas Airbus A380 has triggered a fresh safety investigation and a lot of uneasy questions about how such a basic mistake slipped through. The aircraft ...
TOULOUSE, May 24 (Reuters) - Airbus said efforts to lower the weight of the world's largest airliner lay behind recent A380 wing cracks and pledged to learn from mistakes that lay dormant for a decade ...
When the Airbus A380 wing failed its static ultimate load test roughly 3% short of the required 1.5 times limit load on Feb. 14 (AW&ST Feb. 20, p. 44), it raised serious issues: *Ultimate load ...