Airbus A380

Tiny cracks detected in January in the wings of some Airbus A380s will cost around 100 million euros to fix, the German weekly Der Spiegel reports in its edition to appear on Monday. Experts and internal sources at Airbus estimate that repairs and ...  

Qantas Airways played down a steering issue that forced an Airbus A380 to twice abandon departure before taking off from London's Heathrow airport on Saturday, saying it was unrelated to wing cracks that have led Europe's air safety officials to order global checks on the superjumbo.  

MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III on Friday said that he envisions the Philippines to become a destination for 10 million tourists by 2016. He made the remark at the inauguration of the new Airbus A380 maintenance hangar of Lufthansa ...  

Following reports of stress fractures in the support brackets which connect the composite wings skins of the super jumbo Airbus A380-800 passenger jet, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has ordered inspections of all 69 aircraft currently in ...  

COLOGNE, GERMANY : The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on Wednesday issued a mandate to further inspect the wings of all Airbus A380 aircraft currently in service. The published Airworthiness Directive to mandate a so-called High Frequency Eddy ...  

BERLIN - Europe's air safety authority ordered checks Wednesday on the entire global fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbo jets for cracks on parts inside the wings — extending a previous order for nearly a third of the planes to be inspected.  

The European Aviation Safety Agency has ordered all 67 Airbus A380 superjumbo planes currently in operation to be checked for wing cracks, a spokesman said. Already in January, EASA said that 20 such jets be inspected after cracks were found in the wings of Singapore Airlines, Emirates and Air France planes. "In view of the outcome of those checks, it was decided to expand them to the entire fleet currently in operation," the spokesman...  

BusinessWeek - Found 8 hours ago11:15 AM EST By (Adds analyst comment from fourth paragraph.) Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Airlines were ordered to inspect all operating Airbus SAS A380 aircraft, as Europes air safety regulator escalates required checks after the wings of the double-decker superjumbo developed cracks. The directive by ... Qantas A380 Grounded After Cracking Found in Wing Parts - BusinessWeek...  

(neu: Angaben zu Fristen im 3. Absatz) PARIS/KÖLN (dpa-AFX) - Alle Riesenflugzeuge vom Typ Airbus A380 müssen auf Risse in den Tragflächen untersucht werden. Die Europäische Agentur für Flugsicherheit (EASA) gab am Mittwoch eine entsprechende Anweisung für Betreiber des weltgrößten Passagierjets aus. Ursprünglich sollten...  

European air safety authorities ordered safety checks last month on all 68 Airbus A380 passenger jets, reports the Independent on Thursday. Small cracks have been found inside its wings. The aircraft is the world's largest. Airbus say said the cracks, found on brackets, do not affect the planes.  

All Airbus A380 airplanes must be checked for cracks in the wings, the European Aviation Safety Agency ordered Wednesday. The order covering all A380s does not mean the planes must be grounded, said Dominique Fouda, a spokesman for the aviation ...  

The broader fleet check will follow a Jan. 20 so-called airworthiness directive by the European Aviation Safety Agency that required addressing potential wing cracks only on 20 A380 aircraft that were among the most heavily used. The new ...  

"Our fleet is still young though, with our oldest A380 having completed around 900 cycles," spokesman Michael Lamberty said ... With a list price of $390 million, the 525-seater is popular with passengers but has not sold as well as its ...  

Engineers found some delamination, or separation of baked composite fibers, in parts of the rear fuselage. Jim Albaugh, the head of Boeing's commercial aircraft division, has said the problem would delay initial deliveries without undermining the company's ...  

CTV.caQantas, Korean Air check A380s for wing cracksReutersBy Narayanan Somasundaram and Ju-min Park | SYDNEY/SEOUL (Reuters) - Qantas Airways and Korean Air will carry out inspections for wing cracks on their Airbus A380 superjumbo planes earlier than previously scheduled, after European air safety officials ...Airbus to check all A380s amid safety fearsThe IndependentAll A380 superjumbos to be checked for wing cracksThe GuardianAirbus A380...