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Airplane Flight TWA 800, We Rememeber You...

The A380's Largest Customer... what are they up to?

A380 Success To Wipe Out Smaller Jumbo Jets?

Major Turbulence Follows the Airbus A380

The invention that was most responsible for reducing...

Is the Airbus A380 Being Haunted By Weight problems?

The very first Aviation accident in History

Safety at Airbus - is somebody hiding something?

How safe is the A380?

What the new A380 means to You

It all started with the brothers who hardly had a high school education...


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Airplane Flight TWA 800, We Remember You...

How does an airplane suddenly just explode in mid-air? That was the mystery that has for a long time puzzled and nagged at investigators into the Trans World Airlines flight 800 crash of July 17, 1996.

They thoroughly investigated every possible cause, including that of a surface to air missile being fired at the aircraft, as the nation reeled in shock and grief at the loss of all the 230 precious souls aboard.

While on a flight from New York to Paris, TWA flight 800 suddenly exploded, broke up and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Long island, New York.

Finally, detailed painstaking investigations that included reassembling the airline from debris fished out of the Atlantic paid off and the NTSB were able to announce a probable cause that evidence pointed to being very close to the truth of what really happened.

The investigator’s findings were based on a close examination of the reassembled accident aircraft and evidence of a short circuit in the retrieved black box (flight recorder) recording amongst a host of other supporting facts.

Probable cause was an explosion of the center wing fuel tank resulting from ignition of the flammable fuel/air mixture in the tank. Likely source of ignition energy for the explosion was a short circuit outside of the center wing tank that allowed excessive voltage to enter it through electrical wiring linked to the fuel quantity indication system of the aircraft.

Below we carry the fascinating transcript of Air Traffic Control communication with eyewitness aircraft that were around the area at the time of the crash.

But not everybody agrees with the NTSB findings. Read the facts and theories on this controversial air accident.


However if you read the transcript below carefully, it seems to back-up the NTSB findings.

Air Traffic Control Transcript

BOS = Boston Center
E507 = Eastwing Flight 507
AZA609 = Alitalia Flight 609
VIR009 = Virgin Atlantic Flight 009
UAL002 = United Air Lines Flight 2

8:31:50 E507 We just saw an explosion out here; stinger bee five oh seven.

8:31:57 BOS Stinger bee five oh seven, I'm sorry I missed it, ah, you're out of eighteen did you say something else?

8:32:01 E507 Ah, we just saw an explosion up ahead of us here, about sixteen thousand feet or something like that; it just went down -- in the water.

8:32:10 AZA609 Alitalia six oh nine confirms just ahead of us.

8:32:25 VIR009 Boston, Virgin zero zero nine, I can confirm that out of my nine o'clock position, we just had an ... it looked like an explosion out there about five miles away, six miles away.

8:32:49 BOS An explosion six miles out at your nine o'clock position. Thank you very much sir. Contact New York approach one two five point seven.

8:32:56 BOS TWA eight hundred center

8:33:01 ? Investigate that explosion if you get a lat/long

8:33:04 BOS TWA eight hundred center

8:33:09 BOS TWA eight hundred, if you hear center, ident.

8:33:17 BOS Stinger bee five oh seven, you reported an explosion is that correct sir?

8:33:21 E507 Yes sir, about five miles at my eleven o'clock here.

8:33:31 BOS Alitalia six oh nine, contact Boston now on one two four point five two.

8:33:36 AZA609 One two four point five two and just for your information sir, we are just overhead the explosion; right overhead at this time, now a hundred and three miles from JFK.

8:33:48 E507 We are directly over the site were that airplane or whatever it was just exploded and went down into the water.

8:34:01 BOS Roger that, thank you very much sir. We're investigating that right now. TWA eight zero zero if you hear center, ident.

8:35:43 ? I think that was him.

8:35:45 BOS I think so.

8:35:48 ? God bless him.

8:37:05 E507 Thirty three oh five, so long, stinger five oh seven. Anything we can do for ya before we go?

8:37:11 BOS Well, I just wanna confirm that you saw the splash in the water approximately twenty southwest of Hampton, is that right?

8:37:20 E507 Ah, yes sir. it just blew up in the air and then we saw two fireballs go down into the water and there was a big small, ah, smoke, ah, coming up from that also, ah, there seemed to be a light. I thought it was a landing light and it was coming right at us at about, I don't know, about fifteen thousand feet or something like that and I pushed on my landing lights, ah, you know, so I saw him and then it blew.

8:37:40 BOS Roger that sir, that was a seven forty seven out there; you had a visual on that; anything else in the area when it happened?

8:37:47 E507 I didn't see anything. he seemed to be alone. I thought it had a landing light on, maybe it was a fire, i don't know.

8:37:51 BOS Stinger bee five oh seven, roger that and anything else comes to your mind, you can use your other radio; come back to this frequency and tell me about it.

8:37:58 E507 That's all I can think of at this time.

8:38:06 BOS United two, Boston on one two four point five two.

8:38:08 UAL002 One tow four five two, and is that airplane right in front of us now?

8:38:12 BOS He should be right underneath you, they reported the splashdown right underneath you about, ah, twelve and four miles.

8:38:18 UAL002 It's still burning down there.

8:38:20 BOS In the water?

8:38:21 UAL002 Well there's bright red and there's smoke coming up ... there's fire with smoke.

8:38:30 BOS Fire with smoke coming out of the water?

8:38:32 UAL002 Right at our position right now; I can give you a lat/long if you want.

8:38:35 BOS Absolutely, thank you.

8:38:44 UAL002 It's ah, forty thirty nine point one west zero seven two three eight point zero.

8:38:51 BOS Alright, we got forty thirty nine point one west zero seven two three eight point zero.

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The A380’s Largest Customer

They’ve Ordered 43!

So what is Emirates up to ordering such a huge number of one particular airplane that Boeing still insists is not viable? The Middle East Airline has ordered 43 units of the A380. Or 27 per cent of all orders placed for this aircraft so far.

One of the most successful commercial airplanes in the world is definitely seeing something that this blog and Airbus have seen.

With firm orders having reached a staggering 159 for this giant of an airplane, it seems that a lot of people not only agree with what this blog is saying, but they’re prepared to put big money on the table to prove it.

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A380 Success To Wipe Out Smaller Jumbo Jets?

The really scary thing about the A380 super jumbo jet airplane becoming the major success it seems set to be is that its’ success could wipe out smaller jumbo jets.

Here’s how.

By being able to carry so many more passengers (850 plus) it means that the fare per passenger can be dramatically reduced, which will increase passenger volumes even further.

This will in turn leave the much smaller jumbo jet airplanes in a problem. Their economy class special offer will suddenly be too hefty. So what will they do? Fly exclusive first class passengers only? The problem is that the numbers to go round are probably not there. And besides the A380 with its’ huge space can be turned into a luxury airline complete with Casino’s, restaurants, fountains etc.

In other words, any airline that does not have an A380 in its’ fleet will be at a great disadvantage… and soon in serious trouble as all passengers head towards the super jumbo jet.

It gets even scarier. Any manufacturer without an airplane of such size will suddenly find themselves in a rather awkward position as it will rapidly become more difficult to sell anything other than a super jumbo with a seating capacity of 850 plus. It gets even more complex when you don’t even have such an airplane on your drawing boards.

Your name is Boeing and you’ve just woken up from this terrible nightmare that has left you shaking like a leaf and drenched in sweat… Don’t worry, It was just some bad dream that will never come true. Or was it?

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Major Turbulence follows Airbus A380 Airplane

Reduction in Cost-Advantage Selling Point?

The Airbus A380 airplane has certainly been causing major waves in the airline industry since its’ inception on the drawing boards and right up to its’ dramatic test flight last year and even to this moment as we anxiously wait for it to come into service.

Now even other aircrafts are due to be affected by the A380s’ turbulence. Initial safety guide lines indicate that airplanes will have to fly at least twice the normal distance behind the new Airbus A380 superjumbo to avoid the potential dangers from its’ powerful wake.

The official word out based on data analysis of A380 flight tests, is that this bird produces significantly stronger air turbulence and naturally over wider distances than the largest airplanes now in service.

For those in love with numbers this means minimum separation of 10 nautical miles instead of the current 5, for the largest airlines. Although these figures are initial estimates and will almost certainly be revised, they give a good indication of what is to be expected.

Critics of the A380 now say that the airline will dramatically increase congestion at major airports.

So why may all this be significant to sales?

Some analysts feel that the rule of delaying the touch down of the following aircraft much more than usual may reduce cost advantage selling points of the behemoth of an aircraft which is in fact supposed to greatly increase efficiency at congested airports around the world.

The A380 airplane is capable of carrying up to approximately 850 passengers.

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