World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say

CNET reports (citing this BBC video account) that some aircraft engineers in Australia are concerned about small cracks that have appeared on the wing ribs of some Airbus A380 airplanes, a report says. They're calling for the whole fleet to be grounded, but Airbus says the cracks are harmless.

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Re:Fucking ground this fleet.

[Anonymous Coward]

Or hardware failure. If you are driving 100km/h and a wheel comes off good luck keeping it under control.

I've never heard of a wheel coming off, maybe tightening lugnuts is a more difficult for our limp-wristed metric-loving neighbors? But most people can handle a blowout at highway speeds by simply letting it roll to a stop.