This is gonna make a super-jumbo mess if those government subsidized experts are wrong!
Posted on 01/19/2012 12:35:15 PM PST by Zakeet
Airbus said on Thursday it had discovered more cracks in the wings of A380 superjumbo aircraft but insisted the world's largest jetliner remained safe to fly.
The announcement comes two weeks after tiny cracks were first reported in the wings of the 525-seat, double-decker aircraft, which entered service just over four years ago.
Airbus said it was in talks with the European safety agency, EASA.
"Additional cracks have been found and we are working closely on this issue with EASA," an Airbus spokesman said. "They do not affect safe operation of the aircraft.
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This is gonna make a super-jumbo mess if those government subsidized experts are wrong!
Crack kills!
Not that I'll go anyway, what with the TSA bullstuff.
/johnny
I’m going to go find an AIRBUS picture Jigsaw Puzzle. That should be an accurate depiction.
Until they do.
I’m going to go find an AIRBUS picture Jigsaw Puzzle. That should be an accurate depiction.
Of course they don't. Why, our research even indicates that cracks in major structural elements of passenger aircraft, just a few years into their expected decades-long service life, actually enhances passenger safety.
One of these monster devils will suddenly have a major structural failure AT speed and AT altitude, and the poor bugger driving it won't have time to hit his radio transmit button before he's in minus sixty degree air, and flying along with the thousands of independent and disconnected little pieces that used to be his airplane.
If it happens over deepwater, it could take months to even find the debris field...
If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going!
So the cracks affect the unsafe operation of the aircraft.
I wouldn’t get on a 172 that had cracks on the wings. I don’t care how much redundancy is built into the 380....THERE’S A REASON THE CRACKS ARE THERE.
And no one will remotely conceded that the forementioned cracks had anything to do with it...
Delta launch this evening from KSC
Cracks in the wing? What’s the big deal — it has two.
Am I qualified to be an Airbus PR guy, or what?
It will be a safe aircraft until a wing comes off, then it won’t so safe.
....well ...we already had an EADS delaminated tail fin.....not shure what model.
I wonder if the FAA can prohibit a particular aircraft model from operating in US airspace...
At least the debris from the thing coming apart in flight won't rain down on American heads.
If you’re referring to the incident in late 2001 in the New York area, it was an A300.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587
The A380 design and manufacture was heavily influenced by politics. What could possibly go wrong?
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