May 18, 2006
A380 Touchdown
UPDATE: 4 November 2010
A380 crashlanding news
- “Qantas grounds A380s after incident on Sydney-bound flight” and related posts
- Qantas mid-air emergency: A380 factfile
- Factbox: Airbus A380, the world’s biggest passenger jet
- Qantas Grounds Airbus A380 Fleet After Emergency Landing
- Qantas Jet Forced To Make Emergency Landing
- Qantas Suspends All A380 Flights
- Engine Explodes Aboard Australian Plane, All Of Airline’s Airbus A380s Grounded (RR)
- Qantas says crashed plane an Airbus A380
THE damage suffered by Qantas flight 32 en route to Sydney has been described by leading aircraft engineers as potentially life-threatening and extremely rare, says Sydney Morning Herald.
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus. The largest passenger airliner in the world, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France, and made its first commercial flight on 25 October 2007 from Singapore to Sydney with Singapore Airlines. Also known as the Superjumbo.
ORIGINAL 18 May 2006: At a time when the UK government has stated that nuclear power is effectively the only option to cut down on pollution and help the UK meet its emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol, is it really something to celebrate that the world’s biggest passenger jet, the Airbus A380, has today touched down at London’s Heathrow Airport for the first time? Just a thought.
The A380 touched down on its first commercial flight this week, see here. The flight was a seven-hour charity tour from Singapore to Sydney.
The Register reports today (October 4, 2006) that the “patience of airlines waiting to get their hands on the Airbus A380 is beginning to wear thin following an announcement yesterday that just one example of the “Superjumbo” would be delivered in 2007, as opposed to the nine previously promised by Airbus parent company EADS.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/04/another_a380_delay/
It creates less pollution per person when it is not flying empty.
Have you compared the A380 emissions to those of 555 individual boats crossing the English Channel?