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The aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean Sea near Canet-en-Roussillon on the French coast. The aircraft was an Air New Zealand-owned Airbus A320 leased to XL Airways Germany registered D-AXLA (formerly ZK-OJL), and was undertaking a technical flight immediately prior to a scheduled handover back to Air New Zealand. At the time of the ...
The collision killed 349 people onboard both aircraft. Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747-237B of Air India crashed 101 seconds after taking off from Sahar Airport killing all 213 occupants onboard. Air India Express Flight 1344, a Boeing 737-8HG(SF) of Air India Express suffered a runway excursion and killed 21 out of the 190 occupants onboard.
Air New Zealand's 787-9 fleet uses the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. Owing to blade cracking in the engines, Air New Zealand in 2018 altered schedules and dry-leased two Boeing 777-200ER from Singapore Airlines and a Boeing 777-300ER from EVA Air. As of June 2019, the airline was still waiting for the issue to be rectified and return the ...
New Zealand's flagship carrier expects its earnings before taxation in the first half ending Dec. 31 to be in the range of NZ$120 million ($70.15 million) to NZ$160 million, compared with NZ$185 ...
Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 46E; Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628; Japan Air Lines Flight 123; Japan Air Lines Flight 404; Japan Air Lines food poisoning incident; 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident; Japan Airlines Flight 115
Of the two half owners, News Limited was more interested in selling out and investing the proceeds in other industries, while Air New Zealand did not have the funds to spare: with 102 aircraft, nearly 15,000 staff and a turnover of US$2.3 billion (compared with Air New Zealand's 72 aircraft, 9,200 staff and US$1.8 billion turnover) Ansett's ...
“You would have debris flying through the air at 150mph; anything that hits you could kill you instantly. You probably wouldn’t be able to even stand up,” he said.
The Boeing 747-400 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, an advanced variant of the initial Boeing 747.The "Advanced Series 300" was announced at the September 1984 Farnborough Airshow, targeting a 10% cost reduction with more efficient engines and 1,000 nautical miles [nmi] (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) of additional range.