One A340-600 suffered a stress crack on the main fitting of a main gear leg. ... A340-600 Landing Gear Crack. Share. Bill Burchell November 01, 2005.

The A330 and A340, which were released in the 1990s, both feature rear-tilting landing gear, while the newer A380 and A350-900 use a forward tilt. As discussed previously, the A350-1000's gear is ...

A man’s body was found Saturday afternoon inside the landing-gear wheel well of a plane that had landed at a suburban Washington airport, authorities said. Ground crew assigned to the aircraft ...

The A340-600’s centre bogie is fitted with four wheels. BEA says the landing affected tyre 10. After the aircraft parked, it adds, some 75% of the tyre’s tread surface was found to have detached.

Messier-Dowty is preparing to test noise-reducing components for its Airbus A340 landing gears as part of the European SILENCER noise-reduction programme. Add-on fairings have been designed for ...

When an Airbus A340 landing in bad weather skidded off a Toronto runway in 2005, it broke into pieces and caught fire. ... and three times the rate its landing gear is required to withstand.

The AD, which was released June 29, becomes effective Friday, July 1, and applies to A330-300s and A340-200s and -300s. EASA Issues Emergency AD On A330/A340 Landing Gear Parts | Aviation Week Network ...

The approach to Ushuaia International Airport in Argentina, near the southern tip of South America, is known for being windy. Last week, an Airbus A340-300 made a beautiful cross-wind landing ...

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has extended required main landing-gear checks to cover all variants and weights of Airbus A330/A340 aircraft mo ...