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The aircraft involved was an Airbus A340-313E, with Manufacturer's Serial Number (MSN) 289 and registered as F-GLZQ; it was powered by four CFM International CFM56 engines. [9] It first flew on 3 August 1999, and was delivered to Air France on 7 September 1999. It had logged 3,711 flights [citation needed] for a total of 28,426 flight hours. [10]
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Airbus A340" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
2 August 2005 – Air France Flight 358, an Airbus A340-313E registered as F-GLZQ, was destroyed by a crash and subsequent fire after it overran runway 24L at Toronto Pearson International Airport while landing in a thunderstorm. The aircraft slid into Etobicoke Creek and caught fire. All 297 passengers and 12 crew survived; 43 people were ...
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.
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The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
A Christmas Day plane crash in Kazakhstan may have taken over 40 lives. Image credits: fl360aero. As reported by Daily Mail, the plane broke into several pieces as it landed in Aktau, ...