Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Airbus just achieved an aviation first in Antarctica. One of the company’s A340 planes has successfully landed on the southernmost ...

Spanish flag-carrier Iberia has yet to decide whether to repair the Airbus A340-600 which overran at Quito after striking the runway so hard during landing that damaged sensors ultimately impeded the ...

Iberia has retrieved an Airbus A340-600 damaged in a hard landing at Quito, but has yet to determine when the aircraft will re-enter airline service. The aircraft touched down hard on Quito’s runway ...

Tour company White Desert uses private jets to shuttle people to its Antarctic camps from South Africa. The largest option is the quad-engine Airbus A340, which touched down on the ice for the first ...

For the first time in history, an Airbus A340 plane has landed on Antarctica. Hi Fly, a boutique aviation company, was behind the flight. The company specializes in wet leases, which means they hire ...

The view of an aircraft landing safely on an ice runway in the vast “white desert” of Antarctica is a beautiful thing. But it’s also an impressive achievement, with a lot of preparations and skillful ...

One A340-600 suffered a stress crack on the main fitting of a main gear leg. The crack was caused by excess torque-stress in the gear leg when the aircraft made tight turns during taxiing. This was ...

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