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Airbus A380 grounded during air show in Hamburg
2007-09-18
Hamburg - The new A380 jumbo jet was grounded by technical problems in front of 150,000 people at an air show in the northern German city of Hamburg on Sunday.

The Airbus company said the prototype jet was unable to take off from Hamburg Airport for a demonstration flight and return to Toulouse in France because of a defect in its undercarriage. The jet in Hamburg had been the star turn of the Airport Days - a weekend air show in Hamburg.

Some 150,000 paying guests and tens of thousands more people staring through the airport perimeter fence were waiting at the scheduled take-off time to see the jet lumber into the air. A witness said the jet, serial number MSN 001, which is for tests only and will not be sold to customers, taxied away, then stopped, and after a long delay returned to the apron, disappointing the crowd.

Airbus spokesman Tore Prang said as mechanics worked on the jet, 'This is a test flight for it. It has been under particularly heavy strain. We're going to take our time checking it out and be on the safe side. We've got mechanics and spare parts here in Hamburg. It's not a problem.'
Posted by:Steve White

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Posted by: Thomas Woof   2007-09-18 18:57  

#10  An old aviation maxim goes something like this: "Any landing you can walk away from is a good one; a landing whereby you can re-use the airplane is a great one."
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-09-18 17:44  

#9  And in the interest of fair and balanced reporting,

hahahahalmao
Posted by: Snakes Flaviper7821   2007-09-18 17:43  

#8  Landing without landing gear is a little tricky, but do-able

Landing without landing gear is trivial. The difficult part is about not killing oneself.
Posted by: JFM   2007-09-18 16:44  

#7  And in the interest of fair and balanced reporting, in today's Seatlle Times ( and also on Drudge) there is the report of a fired Boeing Engineer that saya the 787 is unsafe in a crash. ( well no shit Sherlock) The carbon fiber would burn, give off toxic fumes and the small carbon particles would be inhaled by ( the supposedly still living victims) and cause lung damage.
The plastic fuselage would not crumple and absorb energy like an aluminum one but would shatter and expose the pax to more energy.
so i guess maybe landing gear is important (notice it is not called take off gear)
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-09-18 14:52  

#6  Hot air balloons do it all the time.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2007-09-18 13:01  

#5  Landing without landing gear is a little tricky, but do-able (and you WILL land.) Taking off without takeoff gear is impossible.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-09-18 12:37  

#4  It's not a problem.

Defect in the landing gear of an airplane? Ah, that's no big deal...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-09-18 09:25  

#3  Airbus has a spokesman named prang? Delicious...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2007-09-18 08:54  

#2  is a test flight for it. It has been under particularly heavy strain.

Poor thing's nerves are shot, what with the nasty snarking about it and all. You bad people go home and leave this poor plane alone.

There, there ......
Posted by: lotp   2007-09-18 06:14  

#1  Hah hah. [/N. Muntz]
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-18 01:51  

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