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2 unusual facts about Airbus A330


Osmani International Airport

After the project any foreign airlines' jumbo jets like Airbus A330, or Boeing 777 could land easily.

Recife metropolitan area

Its extension permits operations with jumbo jets, such as the Boeing 747-400, which can carry 290 passengers and 62 tons of cargo or Airbus A330/340.


Air data inertial reference unit

On 12 September 2006, Qantas Flight 68, Airbus A330 registration VH-QPA, from Hong Kong to Perth exhibited ADIRU problems but without causing any disruption to the flight.

Deadstick landing

#Air Transat Flight 236, 24 August 2001: An Air Transat Airbus A330 ran out of fuel while flying across the North Atlantic, from Toronto to Lisbon.

LTU International

LTU opened a third long-haul base (to add to Düsseldorf and Munich) at Berlin-Tegel International Airport in October 2007 when it based a single Airbus A330-200 there to launch flights to Bangkok, Punta Cana and Varadero.

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty

Querétaro: manufacturing of major landing gear components for: A320 main landing gear fitting, A330 main landing gear bogie beam and B787 nose landing gear inner cylinder.

Oxalyl chloride

In March 2000, a Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330 was damaged beyond repair after a falsely declared cargo of oxalyl chloride leaked into the cargo bay.

Yaguine Koita and Fodé Tounkara

Yaguine Koïta (born September 25, 1984) and Fodé Tounkara (born April 6, 1985) were stowaways who froze to death on a Sabena Airlines Airbus A330 (Flight 520) flying from Conakry, Guinea, to Brussels, Belgium, on July 28, 1999.


see also

Flight 812

Philippine Airlines Flight 812, an Airbus A330 which was hijacked just before landing.