Singapore Airlines A380 problem

SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines said on Tuesday an A380 superjumbo flight was canceled due to a fuel pump defect, the first technical glitch to ground the world's largest passenger jet. The carrier said the fuel pump problem was detected when the plane's engine was started ahead of departure Monday night on a flight from Singapore to Sydney."Airbus and our own engineers have dedicated teams to try to address these issues quickly, but last night's fuel pump defect took much longer to fix," Singapore Airlines said in an e-mailed statement to a news agency.The airline said it had to switch to using a Boeing 747-400, which seats fewer people than the Airbus jet, because a replacement of the fuel pump failed to solve the problem. The company's second A380 could not be used as it was undergoing maintenance. Of the 418 passengers on the flight, about 70 had to be transferred to alternative flights Tuesday, the carrier said.

Singapore Airlines Airbus A380

The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engined airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.). It is the largest passenger airliner in the world. It first flew on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France. After lengthy delays, commercial flights are scheduled to begin in late 2007. During much of its development phase, the aircraft was known as the Airbus A3XX. The nickname Superjumbo has become associated with the A380.The A380's upper deck extends along the entire length of the fuselage. This allows for a cabin with 50% more floor space than the next largest airliner, the Boeing 747-400, and provides seating for 525 people in standard three-class configuration or up to 853 people in full economy class configuration. Two models of the A380 are available for sale. The A380-800, the passenger model, is the largest passenger airliner in the world, superseding the Boeing 747. The A380-800F, the freighter model, is designed as one of the largest freight aircraft, with a listed payload capacity exceeded only by the Antonov An-225. The A380-800 has a maximum range of 15,000 km (8,000 nmi, sufficient to fly from Chicago to Sydney nonstop), and a cruising speed of Mach 0.85 (about 900 km/h or 560 mph at cruise altitude

My dad is desiparing on a plane again

My Dad has to work in other countries and tomorrow he is off to Malaysia. To the center is a photo of Malaysian airlines Boeing 747-400.
Our family spends a lot of time on planes. one week ago Mum , my brother and I came from Almaty to Dubai, then to Kuala Lumpur, and finally Jakarta. Flying in Air Astana and Emirates. In Dubai
We had a good time my dad been most of the whole world! Flying at night in not easy for the pilot it is dark at not easy to see.

Adam air plane recover

BLACK BOXES FROM INDONESIAN PLANE RECOVERED Black box data recorders from an Adam Air jet have been found, eight months after the plane crashed killing all 102 people aboard. The recorders were found almost 1.5 km apart. On New Years Day, Adam Air Flight KI 574 suddenly went missing off South Sulawesi during a flight from Surabaya to Manado. The budget airline jet had fallen out of the sky over the sea and there were concerns that the plane's data recorders would never be recovered. The flight data recorder was recovered two km under the sea while the voice cockpit recorder was found 1.5 km away at a depth of 1,900 metres. The boxes are being sent to the United States for analysis. Tatang Kurniadi, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Commission, said that the two black boxes had been found after a vessel operated by U.S. company Phoenix International scoured waters off Sulawesi island. Indonesia is trying to improve its safety image after three plane accidents this year prompted the European Union to blacklist all of country's airlines. The U.S. Federal Aviation Authority also downgraded the nation's rating to its lowest category. Signals from the Adam Air Boeing 737's so-called black boxes were detected weeks after the New Year's Day crash, but disagreements over who should pay held up recovery efforts, angering aviation security experts and families of the victims. Tatang said the flight data recorders, which contain crucial conversations from the cockpit and instrument readings, have been brought to the Makassar port on Sulawesi island.