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A SWISS International Air Lines Airbus A330-200 powered by PW4168. As of December 2022, the Airbus A330 had been involved in 47 aviation occurrences, [1] including fourteen hull-loss accidents [2] and two hijackings, for a total of 338 fatalities. [3]
The second fatal and deadliest accident, and first while in commercial service, occurred on 1 June 2009 when Air France Flight 447, an A330-200 registered as F-GZCP, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris with 228 people on board, crashed in the Atlantic Ocean 640–800 km (350–430 nmi; 400–500 mi) northeast of the islands of Fernando de ...
Another incident on TAM Flight 8091, from Miami to Rio de Janeiro on 21 May 2009, involving an A330-200, showed a sudden drop of outside air temperature, then loss of air data, the ADIRS, autopilot and autothrust. [286] The aircraft descended 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) before being manually recovered using backup instruments.
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Airbus A330" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Air Transat accepted responsibility for the accident and was fined C$250,000 by the Canadian government, which as of 2009 was the largest fine in Canadian history. [9] The conclusions reached in the accident report revealed that:
Qantas Flight 72 (QF72) was a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth Airport by an Airbus A330.On 7 October 2008, the flight made an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia, following an inflight accident that included a pair of sudden, uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that caused severe injuries—including fractures, lacerations ...
An Azerbaijani airliner carrying 67 people crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing at least 38 who were on board, according to a Kazakh official.
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A330-342, registered as B-HLL with serial number 244, fitted with two Rolls-Royce Trent 772-60 engines. It first flew on 4 November 1998 and was delivered to Cathay Pacific three weeks later on 25 November. [3]