6 Hurt During A330 Test Flight

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Shano

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Not a good week for Airbus:

theage.com.au said:
Six people are in hospital, two with serious injuries, today after a depressurisation incident during the test flight of an Airbus A330 to be delivered to Air Mauritius today, firefighters said.

European manufacturer Airbus said two of the 10 people on board the wide body commercial passenger plane at the time of the test suffered various kinds of injuries and four were undergoing tests for health problems due to the depressurisation.
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I forecast an increase in their insurance premiums... Their OH&S officers will be working overtime after this and the Etihad A340 test incident - I can picture the sign in the test hanger - 7 days since our last incedent... no wait, make that 0 days since our last incedent...:shock:
 
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