BERLIN (Reuters) - Airbus has ordered increased inspections of A380 wings after discovering unexpected levels of metal fatigue during testing on a factory mock-up, industry sources said on Thursday.
The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger airliner ever built. It was bigger than the iconic Boeing 747, and by far the largest airliner ever built by Airbus, a company that, at the time, had built ...
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 ...
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 ...