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Airbus crashes brand new A346... Injures 10

iSamurai

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Ok... This happened on Thursday night, a brand new, spotless clean A346 crashed into a wall. the front part of the fuselage is snapped off. No one died, 3 seriously injured and 1 plane written off.

Before you start telling me A346 is incorrect... it's short for A340-600 (if you fly a lot it will appear on your tickets). This aeroplane in comparison to Boeing is probably the B773ER, well, the B777-300ER. But this Airbus, is really long.

Here are quite a few news articles
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=uk&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1123644924

and here's the image (so hard to find a hi-res...)
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10 Injured During Airbus Ground Tests

10 hours ago

TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Ten people were injured Thursday when an Airbus 340-600 hit a wall during tests of the four-engine plane on the ground, the company said.

Nine people on board — including seven Etihad Airways employees — and a person on the ground were injured, said government officials and a top Airbus executive.

Officials said three of the injuries were serious, but did not provide further details.

Airbus Chief Operating Officer Fabrice Bregier said that "for reasons still unknown," the plane hit a wall and was badly damaged.

The accident took place during a final round of tests before delivery in which the plane's engines were powered up full-throttle as the brakes were applied, he said.

The company said the plane had been undergoing engine tests outside Toulouse, the southwestern French city where the European plane-making consortium is based.

Jean-Louis Borloo, who heads a French government ministry on the environment, energy and transport, "immediately requested" a technical investigation into the causes of the accident, his office said.
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Seems this is "de moda" this week. This Iberia Airbus overshot the runway last Friday in Quito which resulted in closing the airport to international travel for five days.
 

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I never understand how people manage to run into buildings with cars and planes (unless the plane is falling out of the sky, it's kinda uncontrollable then). "I swear ossifer, that hangar just jumped right out in front of me!"
 
If this is a test before delivery, wouldn't they have ensure some precautions since after all it's still a test to certify whether the plane is fit for usage?
 
They have some discovery channel show on the Boeing planes being delivered, and where the employees run through the planes testing everything before the final big check is written.

No telling where this was in the final process, but I'm sure the insurance company is looking into it just as hard as anyone.

Big oops bad for everyone, but at least the blast walls worked.
 
Wow, it's been a terrible week for the A340-600! First the Iberia incident, then Etihad... I've been following it on airliners.net until it got too depressing.

As much as I dislike Airbus, it's terrible to hear about incidents like this. Thankfully, in both the Iberia and Etihad situations, there were no fatalities or serious injuries.
 
gkarris said:
Duct Tape - it fixes everything!!!

Look for it at Airbus' "Refurbished Aircraft" page... :p
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are you serious!? who would fly in a refurbished plane??? where's the page as I can't find it. Well, that's probably where these no-frills airlines get "new" planes such as this A346 at a really "competitive" price. :D

you know it's cheaper for Airbus to make a new plane than to tape that one up with Duct tape lol :) just kidding... some people may prefer Boeing over Airbus, and I agree with them to a certain extent, such as their B787, which took a relatively short time to develop and produce. They have, however, announced a few-month delay :p

But I think Airbus is another great plane manufacturer, and they have produced aeroplanes at really good quality. But they're not working efficiently... look at how much they've lost because of the delays for the A830.

Personally for me, I prefer medium wide-body aircraft to Boeing as I have flown in B777s for many times. It's quieter compared to the A330/340, but I do think that Airbus' A380, double decker, wide-body jet is really awesome, basing my opinions on CNN and Discovery's reviews. Well, now all for me to do is to fly it ;)
 
diehldun said:
Wow, it's been a terrible week for the A340-600! First the Iberia incident, then Etihad... I've been following it on airliners.net until it got too depressing.

As much as I dislike Airbus, it's terrible to hear about incidents like this. Thankfully, in both the Iberia and Etihad situations, there were no fatalities or serious injuries.
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No fatalities or serious injuries with the Iberia in Quito. They just left it sit on the pista for 12 days and occupy 300 meters of runway on the north end, while international flights were cancelled, which was "injurious" for some of us who lost two weeks travel and meetings as a result. :rolleyes:
 
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