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Both Virgin Atlantic and British Airways have Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft grounded as they wait for maintenance on Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. Each has cancelled hundreds of flights, mostly ...
Virgin Atlantic and British Airways have announced further suspension of routes
Virgin Atlantic continues to struggle with reliability issues on Boeing 787 aircraft but expects to have its major troubles with Rolls-Royce engines resolved by year-end, the airline's CEO said in ...
Virgin Atlantic Flight 024 This page was last edited on 20 December 2023, at 13:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Virgin Atlantic Flight 024 was a regularly scheduled Virgin Atlantic passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to London, United Kingdom. On 5 November 1997, the Airbus A340 was forced to make an emergency landing at London Heathrow Airport after the left main landing gear failed to deploy.
Due to engine fan-blade corrosion issues with the fleet of Boeing 787 aircraft, Virgin Atlantic chose to move some of its Manchester-based Boeing 747 and Airbus A330 aircraft to cover routes out of London Heathrow, with the airline temporarily parking some of its 787s while they wait for attention. In 2016, a spokesperson for Rolls-Royce, the ...
On 24 August 2001, Air Transat Flight 236, an Airbus A330-243 registered as C-GITS, developed a fuel leak over the Atlantic Ocean due to an incorrectly installed hydraulic part and was forced to glide for over 15 minutes to an emergency landing in the Azores. 18 occupants (16 passengers and two crew members) suffered injuries during the ...
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