"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:34:50 -0500, "RCE" wrote:


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:33:25 -0500, Harry Krause
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32 Hurt in Airbus Test Evacuation
From Reuters
March, 27 2006

PARIS - European aircraft maker Airbus said Sunday that 32 people were
injured, including one whose leg was broken, in a test evacuation of its
new A380 double-decker airliner, but it called the test a success.

And they cheated and BARELY made it. They used a normal load, which
is something like 650 people, but the damn thing can carry 850 people
in it's max load configuration.

It's a disaster waiting to happen.

That thing is just too big. It'll never fly.

The sad part is it passed it's initial qualifications and actually
flew.

Off the ground.

I hate to fly unless I'm the pilot and I'm not qualified to fly one of
these things. :)

On my last flight, USAir from Philadelphia to Long Island-McArthur, the
plane had bald tires. It was a small plane, no boarding tunnel, and the
pilot was waiting at the bottom of the stairs when we departed. I asked him
about the bald tires. He said it only mattered during landing, if the runway
was slippery. Nice answer. I like all these bankrupt airlines. I really do.