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

Posted by timothy on from the whereas-perfect-safety-is-wonderful dept.

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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  1. Fucking ground this fleet. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do we need to wait for a catastrophic accident where hundreds of people die?