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On 28 July 2010, Airblue Flight 202, an Airbus A321-231 registered as AP-BJB, crashed in the Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Pakistan. The weather was poor with low visibility. During a non-standard self-created approach below the minimum descent altitude, the aircraft crashed into the ground after the captain ignored 21 cockpit warnings to pull-up.
The side-stick is used in many modern military fighter aircraft, such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon, Mitsubishi F-2, Dassault Rafale, and F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning 2, Chengdu J-20, AIDC F-CK 1 Ching-Kuo and also on civil aircraft, such as the Sukhoi Superjet 100, Airbus A320 and all subsequent Airbus aircraft, [2] including the largest passenger jet in service, the Airbus A380.
Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) [b] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France.On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication led to the pilots inadvertently stalling the Airbus A330.
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 ...
The aircraft, serial number MSN023, [5] was on its first pre-delivery test flight and was scheduled to be the third A400M to be delivered to the Turkish Air Force. [1] [2] The delivery was scheduled for June 2015. [6] The aircraft was being flown by an Airbus Defence and Space test crew [4] [7] [8] and used the callsign CASA423. [9]
The Airbus A400M Atlas [nb 1] is a European four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft.It was designed by Airbus Military, now Airbus Defence and Space, as a tactical airlifter with strategic capabilities to replace older transport aircraft such as the Transall C-160 and the Lockheed C-130 Hercules. [3]
The aircraft suffered a nose gear collapse and struck a localizer antenna. The aircraft was written off, although no fatalities or injuries were reported. [29] [30] On 12 December 2022, an Airbus A330neo on delivery to Condor was damaged during manoeuvres on the ground as it hit a building under tow, causing a fuel leak at Toulouse Airport. [31]
EgyptAir Flight 804 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport, operated by EgyptAir.On 19 May 2016 at 02:33 Egypt Standard Time (), the Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 66 occupants on board.