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On 16 June 1993, an A340-200 dubbed the World Ranger flew from the Paris Air Show to Auckland, New Zealand in 21 hours 32 minutes and back in 21 hours 46 minutes after a five-hour stop; this was the first non-stop flight between Europe and New Zealand and the longest non-stop flight by an airliner at the time. [38]
2002 – First flight of the Airbus A340-500, European long-range wide-body four engine jet airliner. 2000 – Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix, dies (b. 1917). Auriol earned a military pilot license 1950 then qualified as one of the first female test pilots. She was among the first women to break the sound barrier and set five world speed ...
Emirates Flight 407 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Emirates from Auckland to Dubai with a stopover in Melbourne, operated by an Airbus A340-500 aircraft. On 20 March 2009, the flight failed to take off properly at Melbourne Airport , hitting several structures at the end of the runway before climbing and then ...
It was the first-ever nonstop flight between Europe and New Zealand and the longest-ever nonstop flight by an airliner. ... “On a long flight from Hong Kong to London on the A340-300, they would ...
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The aircraft involved was an Airbus A340-311, registered G-VSKY with manufacturer serial number 016. It made its first flight on 3 November 1993 and was delivered soon after to Virgin Atlantic on 21 January 1994. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had flown 19,323 hours.
His Majesty The Sultan's Flight's Airbus A340-200 during a visit of the Sultan of Brunei to Australia in May 2013. His Majesty The Sultan's Flight (HMSF) has several aircraft in VIP configuration exclusively for the Sultan of Brunei and members of the Royal Family. These include a Boeing 767-200ER, a Boeing 747-8 BBJ, and a Boeing 787-8.
Image credits: Michael Buckner / Getty #3 Scott Disick. Boxes of Mounjaro, which is known for its weight loss effects, were found stacked in Scott Disick’s fridge on a past episode of The ...