AERONAUTICS - Part of the right wing of the aircraft was damaged in the incident ...
No flight for the aircraft at Le Bourget flagship Airbus.The A380 superjumbo will not be demonstrations in the Paris Air Show which will open Monday , its right wing was damaged when it struck a building at the airport, Airbus announced on Sunday.
"For ground handling of Aitbus A380", part of the right wing "has touched a structure [a building] near the haulage road" Victor "at Le Bourget airport at 15h50," according to a statement from the manufacturer.
Second setback for EADS
"The Airbus experts are currently inspecting the plane, but it is already confirmed that the A380 MSN 004 will not achieve during flights," the show.The A380, a device the size out of the ordinary compared to other commercial aircraft, struck a building on the taxiway Sunday afternoon.
This is the second disappointment of the day for EADS, the parent company of Airbus, after announcing that its military transport plane A400M will not do flight demonstration at Le Bourget due to a problem with the engine.The decision was taken "as a precaution and because the conditions under which we made the flight demonstrations," said a spokesman for Airbus Military, the branch of EADS Military Transport.
The device has experienced an incident considered minor in relation to its engines.The unit arrived on Sunday afternoon shortly after 15h30en from Toulouse.It will be a passage in the sky at Le Bourget Monday for the inauguration by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and should then remain on the ground during the show unless a technical solution is found.
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