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Uncle Red asked in TravelAir Travel · 1 decade ago

Airbus A380 Fly or No Fly!?

WIth the safety concerns with the fuel tanks and the chance of rapid decomression of the cabin, is this really a safe plane? or is it another attempt by Airbus like the concorde that really had issues and wasn't taken from service until an accident happened.

Read this guys blog .... joemangan.com

Update:

For everyones info Joe worked for TTtech and found the decompression flaw, he never worked for Boeing.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Joe works for Boeing. Don't believe a word he says.

    I can't wait for the A380 to start flying in regular service.

  • 1 decade ago

    The A380 was certified for flight by the JAA and FAA and passed its evacuation tests the first time; it should be as safe to fly as any other large commercial jetliner.

    As far as comfort, this is usually up to the airline, not the manufacturer, since the airline decides how many seats to cram in the plane. Have you noticed the tracks in the floor of aicraft? That allows the seats to shift closer or farther together, which affects comfort.

    I sincerely hope there is never a disaster on one of these planes; with so many people on board and such a large plane, it would be a horrible event. The safety organizations from Europe and the US are very concerned and performed many tests on this aircraft; it should be safe.

    But airbus will take a financial beating on the thing, that's for sure. They have to sell 420 to break even; so far they are at 157 and falling. Boo hoo.

    Source(s): Aircraft enthusiast
  • DA
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Since they changed the fly-by-wire system so the pilots actually control the plane, I'd give it a shot.

    However, I don't think that the Airbus planes are comfortable. I prefer Boeing planes myself. The 747-400OP is like a cruise ship in the sky.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The concorde did not leve leve service because of the crash. It was that people were scared of the plane since the crash. So the crash was the inderect cause of the droping.

    Wether the A380 works or not. We will find out soon. I hope it works!

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  • 1 decade ago

    I usually don't fly cause I hate it lol. But it's probably not such a bad plane with all the new stuff in it.. Dunno.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    how many hundreds of flights do they make each day and how often to the crash.... maybe once or twice? if at all?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i am going to be one new pilot for them. i had to test it its fine

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    fly!!!!!!

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