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Images; An-225 image gallery: Second Antonov An-225 (line no. 01-02) under construction, September 2004: Second Antonov An-225 under construction, August 2008: Second Antonov An-225 under construction, August 2008: Video; on YouTube The worlds biggest planes: Antonov An-225 in comparison with Airbus A380-800, Airbus A340-600 and Boeing 747-400
The Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world's largest airplane, was at the airport at the start of the battle. It was initially confirmed to be intact by an Antonov pilot, despite the fighting. [ 41 ] On 27 February, a Ukroboronprom press release claimed that the Mriya had been destroyed by a Russian airstrike. [ 42 ]
This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
There are fears that the world’s largest plane by length, the Antonov AN-225, has been damaged amid intense fighting in Ukraine. Only a single aircraft was ever completed, making its first ...
5 April 2020 – An Antonov An-26 transport plane was destroyed on an airstrip near Tarhuna, Libya. Forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) reported that it had shot an Antonov cargo plane carrying ammunition for Libyan National Army (LNA) militias. LNA confirmed the attack but stated that the aircraft carried medical supplies.
Authorities work at the site of a plane crash where all passengers and crew on board died, in Vinhedo, Brazil, on Aug. 9, 2024 A 3-year-old girl named Liz Ibba dos Santos was the only child on the ...
Footage shot by passengers on the plane before it crashed showed oxygen masks down and people wearing life vests. Later footage showed bloodied and bruised passengers climbing out of the plane.
English: An overlay diagram showing five of the largest airplanes ever built, the Hughes H-4 Spruce Goose (airplane with the greatest height), the Antonov An-225 Mriya (the largest airplane), the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (the largest version of the Boeing 747 Jumbojet), the Airbus A380-800 (the largest passenger airplane), and the Scaled Composites Stratolaunch (airplane with the greatest ...