Airbus timeline
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Iran Air Flight 655 Shot Down by US Missiles
Iran Air Flight 655, also known as IR655, was a civilian airliner shot down by US missiles on Sunday 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, toward... Read more
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Air Inter Flight 148 Crashes, Killing 87
Air Inter Flight 148 was a scheduled airline flight on 20 January 1992 that crashed in the Vosges Mountains, near Mont Sainte-Odile, while circling... Read more
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Aeroflot Flight 593 Crashes with 15-year Old in Control
Aeroflot Flight 593, a "Russian Airlines" Airbus A310-304 passenger airliner, registration F-OGQS, operating on behalf of Aeroflot, crashed into a... Read more
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China Airlines Flight 140 Stalls at Landing
China Airlines Flight 140 was a route from Taipei, Taiwan to Nagoya, Japan. On April 26, 1994, the Airbus A300 on the route was due to land at... Read more
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Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 Crashes in Low Visibility
Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 (GA152, GIA152) was a scheduled domestic Indonesian passenger flight from Jakarta to Medan Sumatra operated by state... Read more
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TAM Airlines Flight 3054 Explodes Near Gas Station
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ 3054) was an Airbus A320 airliner, registration PR-MBK, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight between... Read more
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Air France Flight 447 is lost over Atlantic Ocean
Military aircraft and warships from France and Brazil were combing the equatorial Atlantic in a desperate quest to find the wreckage of an Air... Read more
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Seventeen bodies have been recovered from Air France Flight 447 debris, according to Brazilian military authorities
Seventeen bodies have been recovered from last week's crash of an Air France jetliner off the South American coast, according to Brazil's... Read more
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Brazilian Officials Confirm Retrieval of Air France Flight 447 Vertical Stabilizer
Search crews recovered the vertical stabilizer from the tail section of the Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic, Brazil's air force said... Read more
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French Submarine Sent to Search for Air France Flight 447 Black Box
Off the coast of Brazil, search teams continue to hunt for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. They have recovered 41 bodies so far, with 187... Read more
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Autopsy Reports from Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Seem to Rule Out Terrorism
Autopsies on the bodies recovered after the Airbus disaster in the south Atlantic suggest there was no explosion or fire and therefore no terrorist... Read more
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Centennial Paris Air Show Opens on Somber Note Amid Continuing Air France Flight 447 Investigations
The world's largest showcase of civilian and military aircraft and equipment, the Paris air show, has opened at Le Bourget Airport. Some 2,000... Read more
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Brazil Announces End of Search for Bodies from Air France Flight 447
Brazil has called off its search for more bodies and debris from the Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean four weeks... Read more
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Yemenia Flight 626 Crashes
Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled commercial flight operated by Yemenia en route from Sana'a, Yemen, to Moroni, Comoros that crashed on 30 June... Read more
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Two Ships End Search for Air France Flight 447 Black Box
The ping signals from the black boxes belonging to doomed Air France Flight 447 began to fade about 10 days ago, and now two of the ships involved... Read more
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Pakistan Airbus A321 Crash
An airblue Airbus A321 crashed into the hills overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan, in rainy weather Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board,... Read more