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Old 30th October 2005 | 13:47
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A 380 has problems with an engine

F.A.Z. FRANKFURT, 28 October. With the new large-capacity aircraft A380 problems with the engine arose. The Frankfurt general newspaper (expenditure for Saturday) reports. Therefore the European manufacturer airbus on Saturday another test flight things than planned to Frankfurt airport sending, where different maneuvers and process at the soil are to be tried out. To information of this newspaper it had come on Thursday to technical problems with one of the two A380-Maschinen tested at present. The test flights of both airplanes - both the number 1 as well as the number 4 - are to have been broken off. About it high-level personnel is to have been informed on late Thursday by E-Mail. On Saturday now the A380 with the manufacturer number 4 is planned the number 1 to Frankfurt to fly, not as before.

A spokeswoman von Airbus in Toulouse confirmed that at test flight things number 1 was arisen "with an inspection a problem". "preventive" one exchanged this engine, which comes from the manufacturer Rolls-Royce, now. It did not want to confirm rumors, to which it had come to a fire in the engine. Due to the complex installation of test equipments at the new engine stick the A380 number 1 now only once at the soil, said it. So far it was intended that he starts in the next week to test flights to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Australia. In the schedule for it nothing is to change, was called it in Toulouse.


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Frankfurt general newspaper Mr. Jahn Tel.: 0049 (0)69-75 91-14 40
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