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[3WE]

THERE HAS BEEN A TOTAL A320 DISASTER!!!!!

The attached video (link is probably short-lived) shows an A-320 being lifted and dropped from about 60 feet in India or some other foreign place I know nothing about.

It was being moved to be used as some sort of ground-training aircraft.

http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/crane-co ... V4KklYOkqV

Of course, there is much ironing to be covered.

Ironingly, it was probably a steel cable that broke.

Not-so ironingly is my new ongoing painful assertion that "wow, these cheap composite crackerbox airframes actually seem to hold up a bit better in crashes...as long as the control surfaces don't break off or they aren't stalled for thousands of feet.

No doubt cowboy disregard to procedure is involved here- as well as third world safety cultures.

So, wow, what do you do at that low of an attitude. A stall, but 0 airspeed...would you lower the nose or pull up relentlessly?

Does anyone have a no-hire list for crane operators?

Luckily, no one did died (except for probably the plane).

It's sad that we have A320's now wearing out and being retired...too bad those total idiots at boing (Sorry Brad & Verbie) didn't come out with the 757NG or whatever the JP bunch say it should be called.

[Not_Karl]

(Hopefully...) FIXED LINKY.

Let's not discard an automation vs. crew fatigue/lack of training/incorrect procedure following issue.
Can a crane operate automatically below 60ft. on a single AP?

[Verbal]

Long-dormant Iran Air order struck from Airbus backlog
FlightGlobal 01/11/2024
Author: David Kaminski-Morrow

Iran Air’s landmark agreement for 100 Airbus aircraft has been scrubbed from the airframer’s backlog, its year-end figures reveal.

The Iranian flag-carrier placed the order in 2016 after sanctions were eased as part of a political agreement over the government’s nuclear energy programme.

Iran Air ordered 98 jets including 16 A350-1000s and 28 A330-900s, as well as eight A330-200s, along with 32 A320neos, eight A321s and six A320s.

The carrier was also assigned a pair of A330-200s which had originally been delivered to Avianca but not put into service.

But while the two A330-200s and a single new A321 were delivered to the Tehran-based airline, the remaining 97 aircraft have remained on the backlog after political tensions between the US and Iranian governments re-emerged in 2018.

Airbus’s newly-released year-end backlog figures for 2023 show that all 97 remaining aircraft assigned to Iran Air have been struck off.

This adjustment for Iran Air accounts for over 40% of the 225 cancellations recorded by Airbus last year. It particularly affects the net order total for the A330neo family, which fell to eight aircraft.

It is instructive to note that the morally bankrupt eurocommies that run Air Bus even sold airplanes to the Iranians in the first place.

[Not_Karl]

It is instructive to note that the morally bankrupt eurocommies that run Air Bus even sold airplanes to the Iranians in the first place.

With or without loose nuts?