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While attempting to land on runway 24L at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Air France Flight 356, an Airbus A350-900, initiated a go-around and suffered a tailstrike. The aircraft circled round for a second attempt and landed on the same runway without further incident. No injuries were reported but the aircraft received significant damage.
In aviation, a tailstrike or tail strike occurs when the tail or empennage of an aircraft strikes the ground or other stationary object. This can happen with a fixed-wing aircraft with tricycle undercarriage , in both takeoff where the pilot rotates the nose up too rapidly, or in landing where the pilot raises the nose too sharply during final ...
Air France Flight 358 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, to Toronto Pearson International Airport in Ontario, Canada. On the afternoon of 2 August 2005, while landing at Pearson airport, the Airbus A340-313E operating the route overran the runway and crashed into nearby Etobicoke ...
Cathay Pacific said it found 15 aircraft that needed repair after the in-flight failure of an engine part prompted it to inspect its entire Airbus A350 fleet. Major airline grounds Airbus A350 ...
The JAL aircraft involved in the accident was an Airbus A350-941, [Note 2] operating as Flight 516, manufacturer serial number 538, and registered as JA13XJ. The aircraft was just over two years old at the time of the collision, first flying on 20 September 2021 and delivered to JAL on 10 November.
Both aircraft were preparing to take off just after 10 a.m. when the wing of the larger plane, an Airbus A350 heading to Tokyo, struck the tail of a CRJ-900 jet heading to Lafayette, Louisiana ...
Air France Flight 406 exploded and shattered into pieces when a bomb was smuggled inside its cargo on 10 May 1961, killing all 78 on board. TWA Flight 847, a Boeing 727-231, was hijacked shortly after takeoff on 14 June 1985. One person was killed. Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked on the ground at Algiers and flown to France on 24 December 1994.
It is confirmed through manufacturer order records that the split will consist of 39 A350-900s and 11 A350-1000s. [9] Preliminary delivery data suggests that KLM will take up all of the group's ordered -1000 variant aircraft and at least 11 of the -900 variant, leaving at most 28 -900 variant aircraft for Air France. [10] Airbus A350-1000 ...