Airbus jet crashes in test flight

Airbus jet crashes in test flight

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One person has been killed and six are missing after an Airbus A320 aircraft crashed during a test flight after maintenance work, officials have said.

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One body has been recovered and search aircraft and ships are looking for the missing people.
The plane's fuselage has been located, a French rescue official told the Associated Press news agency.
The plane was last owned by XL Germany and was being returned to an aircraft leasing company.
XL Germany said there were two flight crew from XL Germany and 3-5 engineers on board.
The plane was undergoing maintenance checks at Perpignan airport.
The A320 is one of Airbus's most popular single aisle passenger jets

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According to New Zealand MSM (Newstalk ZB) it was a plane destined for Air New Zealand and was a training/delivery flight with 7 people on board. 1 Body found and I'd presume the rest are dead too considering ocean temps and night time.

Sad... hopefully one day when I'm working for them this don't happen...

edit: obviously very little details as it happened just over 3 hours ago.

[edit on 27/11/08 by GhostR1der]

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