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Air France Flight 447 Airbus A330 Broke Apart in Sky

Air France has said about Flight 447 that the jetliner broke apart in the air there is no hope that anyone survived. According to French newspaper Le Monde the jet was flying too slowly ahead of the crash, Reuters reported. Meanwhile photos shot shortly before the aircraft crashed appered in the web. The source says: The photos shown here were taken by a passenger in a B737 (wasn’t it a A330?) The photos were retrieved from the camera’s memory stick. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.

Airbus 340-600 engine tests accident

Ten people were injured on Thursday when an Airbus 340-600 slammed (not really an ‘airbus crash‘) into a wall during engine tests on the ground at Toulouse-Blagnac airport, the planemaker and government officials said. Just hours previous to the airplane’s formal delivery to Etihad Airways, the plane pushed itself up a sloped concrete wall, suffering intense hull damage.

Airbus delivers first A380 to Singapore Airlines

The first Airbus A380 superjumbo was delivered yesterday to Singapore Airlines. The upper deck has 60 business class seats, each is 86 centimeters wide. These can convert into a fully flat bed and include 39-centimeter LCD television screens, USB ports and in-seat power supplies for laptop computers. The 399 economy-class seats on the back half of the upper and the lower decks of the plane are designed to maximize leg and knee room. Each seatback is equipped with a 27-centimeter video screen, USB port and electrical power port for laptops.