All news on the topic: Airbus SA

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Ex-pilot's chilling MH370 theory of what really happened to missing flight
When MH370 was declared missing, governments launched a search to find the wreckage before calling it off three years later. Many aviation experts have done their own research into the case, as featured in BBC's Why Planes Vanish: The Hunt for MH370
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Chancellor to announce £360 million funding for manufacturing ahead of Budget
The package is for research and development and manufacturing projects across the life sciences, automotive and aerospace sectors
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'Tie Fighter' satellite about to crash but no one knows where
Scientists are tracking the orbiter as its descends from the heavens. Their best estimate is for re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday
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Airbus to deliver 800 commercial aircraft in 2024 despite supply chain woes
The company reported that adjusted earnings before interest and tax rose 4% to 5.8 billion euros (£4.9 billion) as revenue climbed 11%
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Virgin Atlantic flight grounded as passenger spots missing bolts on plane wing
Brit Phil Hardy and his partner who were aboard a Virgins Atlantic flight to New York noticed four missing fasteners on the aircraft's wing while in mid-air. After Phil apprised the flight attendant who told the pilot, a maintenance worker was sent out to fix the issue
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Airbus Atlantic nightmare as 700 staff off sick after Christmas dinner
It's not known what was on the menu at the celebratory feast before it turned into a far from festive affair, with workers experiencing vomiting and diarrhoea
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Plane has to make emergency landing after depressurising moments after take off
The Rossiya Airbus A319 was 20 minutes into the flight from Mineralnye Vody bound for St Petersburg when the cabin depressurised, sparking panic onboard for its 111 passengers and crew
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UK researchers will create 'rainbow' device in renewed search for life on Mars
Enfys – meaning 'rainbow' in Welsh - is an infrared spectrometer that will replace a Russian-made device previously fitted to the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover
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Inside £8k-a-flight First Class suites 'like hotel rooms' with beds and sofas
Japan Airline has offered a glimpse inside its new first and business class offering on Airbus A350-1000 planes that will fly from Haneda in Tokyo to JFK Airport in New York
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New airline launches where every single seat can recline to be fully flat
A new airline Beond is to start flying services Munich, Riyadh and Zurich to Velana International airport in the Maldives which only have lie back beds
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EasyJet to resume dividend payments and order new aircraft after record profit
The airline has made a record profit this summer and is planning to resume dividend payments to shareholders and order new aircraft
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New plane design launching in 2025 could be 'gamechanger' for hand luggage rules
Airbus has unveiled the 'Airspace L Bins', a new form of overhead storage that allows passengers to store their wheelie bags away in a much more space efficient way
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Special Forces missions to be hampered by lack of boats to drop from planes
UK Special Forces, including the Special Boat Service and SAS, will not be able to parachute from Atlas A400(M) planes and collect boats at sea because the Government is yet to order new inflatables
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Air France not guilty of manslaughter of 228 on jet which crashed into Atlantic
Five British nationals and three Irish doctors were among the 228 passengers killed after the doomed Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean
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Bungling pilots blamed for Air France plane crashing into sea killing 228 people
Cedric Bonin, 32, referred to as an Air France "company baby" due to his junior positions, was the least experienced of the three pilots, but was forced to fly the enormous Airbus 330 through a tropical storm producing crashing thunderstorms
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Qantas gives first look at lavish First Class suites with sliding doors and beds
Qantas will launch its newly designed Airbus A350s in late 2025, with the first class suites to have extra-wide fixed bed, separate recliner chair, personal wardrobe, dining table for two and a 32” ultra-high definition TV
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Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay accused of being 'on strike' from NHS crisis
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting slammed Rishi Sunak and Steve Barclay for failing to negotiate with health unions and put an end to strikes - as ambulance workers and nurses both walked out today at the same time
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World's longest ever flight took 64 days and pilots were carried out of plane
Robert Timm and John Cook spent 64 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes in the air 64 years ago, sleeping, eating and doing everything else in the tiny four seater plane