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2 August 2005 – Air France Flight 358, an Airbus A340-313E registered as F-GLZQ, was destroyed by a crash and subsequent fire after it overran runway 24L at Toronto Pearson International Airport while landing in a thunderstorm. The aircraft slid into Etobicoke Creek and caught fire. All 297 passengers and 12 crew survived; 43 people were ...
Virgin Atlantic Flight 024 was a regularly scheduled Virgin Atlantic passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to London, United Kingdom. On 5 November 1997, the Airbus A340 was forced to make an emergency landing at London Heathrow Airport after the left main landing gear failed to deploy.
To be replaced with Airbus A350-900 by 2025. [3] EgyptAir: 3 1 A340-300 leased from Gulf Air: Emirates: 8 10 Launch customer of A340-500 Etihad Airways: 1 4 7 A340-300 sold to Hi Fly A340-600 sold to European Aviation Eurowings: 2 Operated by Brussels Airlines: Government, Corporate, Private and undisclosed 5 33 7 24 69 Finnair: 7 Garuda ...
A worrying sign of the A340’s imminent demise is that there are currently no airlines operating the A340-500 variant, which Airbus introduced in 2003 as the world’s longest-range commercial ...
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The plane originally used for the Singapore–Newark route was an Airbus A340-500. It had 14 cabin crew and six flight deck officers, each working four-hour shifts. [10] The flight required 222,000 litres (49,000 imp gal; 59,000 US gal) of fuel, more than ten times the total weight of all the passengers and crew.
Deli Mike or Deli Mayk (English: Crazy Mike) is a nickname given to an Airbus A340-300 operated by Turkish Airlines with civil registration TC-JDM.The aircraft joined the Turkish Airlines fleet in 1996 to replace the McDonnell Douglas DC-10s of the airline and was used to operate long-haul flights out of Turkey.
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A340-313E, with Manufacturer's Serial Number (MSN) 289 and registered as F-GLZQ; it was powered by four CFM International CFM56 engines. [9] It first flew on 3 August 1999, and was delivered to Air France on 7 September 1999.