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Old 13th Apr 2011, 22:32
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Originally Posted by surplus1
Preliminary data would seem to indicate that the ONLY passenger airliner that would NOT have cleared the RJ in this incident happens to be the A380. That would appear to indicate that the A380 is "too big" as opposed to the CRJ being "too small".
Indeed...and I would blame Airbus Industries for building such a ridiculously large aircraft that causes so much trouble for the world's "too small for it" airports. The entire infrastructure of any airport is totally upset by the arrival and departure of just one of these monsters...Customs, Immigration, Baggage handling etc., etc. I would just ban all A380 aircraft from ANY airport that was not specifically designed and built to cope with it.
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