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The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter), or Beluga, is a specialised wide-body airliner used to transport aircraft parts and outsize cargoes. It received the official name of Super Transporter early on, but its nickname, after the beluga whale , which it resembles, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] gained popularity and has since been officially adopted.
The aircraft was written off. [24] TC-JOC was preserved at Aircraft Museum Kathmandu in November 2017. On 27 August 2019, Air China Flight 183, an Airbus A330-343 registered as B-5958, caught fire while boarding at the gate at Beijing Capital International Airport. The passengers and crew were safely evacuated. The aircraft was written off. [25 ...
After an Airbus A350 production increase, Airbus aimed to deliver 880 aircraft in 2019, and raise A320neo output to 63 per month by 2021; the Beluga XL fleet was expanded with a sixth aircraft in June 2019. [10] The BelugaSTs could still have 10–20 years' flying life left, and may be offered for sale, or used to serve external customers. [10]
Because the Beluga ST’s cargo hold is 50% higher and 10% wider than regular cargo aircraft — like the Boeing 747-8F — it is generally used to transport voluminous items such as satellites ...
The accident was the first fatal accident involving the A321, and the deadliest plane crash in Pakistan. [ 115 ] On 5 November 2014, Lufthansa Flight 1829, an Airbus A321-231 registered as D-AIDP, was flying from Bilbao to Munich when the aircraft, while on autopilot, lowered the nose into a descent reaching 4000 fpm.
A plane carrying 181 people, Jeju Air Flight 7C2216, crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea. A team of U.S investigators was being assembled to aid South Korea's probe into the crash.
When including ground fatalities, American Airlines holds this distinction, with the 2001 crashes of Flight 11 and Flight 77 on 11 September, and Flight 587 on 12 November, with a combined total of approximately 2,000 deaths, including 416 people on the three aircraft. [4] The deliberate crashes of the aforementioned American Airlines Flight 11 ...
A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash. JOE GIRON/Star-Telegram There have been 2,751 aircraft crashes with a fatality in Texas in more than ...