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Thursday, May 28, 2015
Two weeks ago it crashes in Spain from a machine of the type A400M. The model is to be the new standard military transport of several armies. But the disaster revealed shortcomings in the assembly. Much better it runs however with a passenger model.
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Several weeks after the crash of an Airbus A400M military transport aircraft in Seville has access to the data of the flight recorders. “We have for the first time to see the results yesterday, they confirm our internal analysis,” said Airbus Chief Strategy Officer Marwan Lahoud the “Handelsblatt”.
Airbus had announced last week that there was no design problem in the A400M. The software for controlling the motors had been partly filled with wrong during final assembly. Which led to the failure of the motors and thus the crash. “The black boxes attest to that. There are no structural defects, but we have a serious quality problem in the final assembly,” Lahoud said. That was not a glorious chapter for the company.
For Airbus is the result of the black box evaluation, should the Judge acknowledge, despite the image damage relief. Constructive changes to the turboprop engines, which are manufactured by a European consortium would have brought significantly longer delays.
A320 construction is ausgweitet
Meanwhile, thinks the aircraft manufacturers in the face of droning demand for Airbus medium-haul jets on an even greater expansion of production by. Already by 2018 could annually approximately 720 aircraft from the A320 model family leave the works – that would be a good 40 percent more than today. “The question is rather as if when we expand production,” said Fabrice Brégier Airbus Chief Toulouse. Airbus had the end of April more than 5,100 orders for the A320 and its less fuel consuming edition A320neo in the books.
Read more aboutSo far, it is provided to expand production by 2017 from the current 42 to 50 aircraft per month. The company check now but in future produce even more than 60 machines per month, said sales chief John Leahy.
Clearly turbid is the situation in the largest model A380. Chief salesman Leahy introduced in 2015 at least some new orders in prospect. Airbus advertises for years to attract new customers for the flagship. This year the company intends to write to the jet for the first time no more casualties.
A possible remake “A380neo” with more fuel-efficient engines remains meanwhile the future. “We have to consider the economic,” Brégier said. Great customer Emirates had repeatedly called for the modernization and placed another large order in view of this case, but so far Airbus shuns the high development costs.
Source: n-tv.de
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