vIndianz.com (Nov 30, 2009) — Air France said its sole A380 superjumbo was made to go back to New York’s JFK airport 90 minutes into a flight because of a technical malfunction. The latest A380 service was just launched five days back.
An Air France spokesman, Nicolas Petteau, said the event happened on Friday. The A380 suffered a “slight technical difficulty” that caused the crew to turn the plane about for checks on the ground, he said.
Mr Petteau said the superjumbo landed safe and sound in New York, the difficulty was fixed and the plane took off another time for Paris with 402 passengers on board. He said the airliner – Air France’s only A380 in its fleet – had since crossed the Atlantic some times.
Air France is the foremost European owner of the French manufacturer Airbus’s largest plane, which it will fly with 538 seats. It is by now flown by Singapore Airlines, Emirates and Australia’s Qantas airline.
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