[thechat] Breaking news - another airplane goes down in NYC

[Ben Dyer]

At 11:52 AM 11/12/2001, you wrote:
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>A guy on NPR this morning said that particular plane has been around
>since 1972 (damn, they keep those planes going a long time!)
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>I doubted that plane is from 1972, so I checked: The A300-600 is a
>twin-engine widebody seating 266 passengers in a standard two-class
>configuration. The first A300-600 entered service in March 1984. By the end
>of October 2001, 242 A300-600s were in service with 27 operators. To date,
>the entire fleet has accumulated some 5.560 million flight hours in some
>2.886 million flights.The first A300-600 delivery to American Airlines took
>place in April 1988 and by the end of October 2001, American Airlines' fleet
>of 35 A300-600s had accumulated some 1.1923 million flight hours.
>http://www1.airbus.com/more_info.asp

But no one knows which model of Airbus A300 crashed.

I checked it out, the first flight of the Airbus A300 was October 28, 1972.

http://www1.airbus.com/about/milestones_1960_70s.asp
http://www.jacdec.de/a300.htm

You are correct about the A300-600, however, its first flight was in 1983.

--Ben


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