The design of the A400M military transport plane not questioned after the accident in Spain in early May following a happened during examination procedures ruling, considered Fabrice Brégier, Airbus civil aircraft subsidiary Airbus Group.
The German newspaper Handelsblatt on Friday evoked problem installing the control system engines to explain the accident, which left four dead and two seriously injured in Seville on May 9.
“This means that the design of the aircraft must not be put into question,” said Fabrice Brégier in an interview with several French media broadcast this Saturday.
“There has been, indeed, or weakness in the procedures for examination of the aircraft before takeoff, because it was the first flight of a production aircraft, or a problem in the implementation of these procedures, “said the director, recalling that the defense branch Airbus Group, Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS), is responsible for the A400M program and therefore of the internal investigation.
Asked about the possibility of incorrect installation of the same type in civil aircraft, the leader stressed that “at the group level, all the findings of such an accident or even be extracted to produce a incident. ” “We have not had, in Toulouse, no problem in the last 20 years,” he added. “There is no structural defect, but we have a serious problem of quality in the final assembly” of the A400M, admitted Friday the director of the Airbus Group strategy Marwan Lahoud.
The loss of the A400M was a further blow for the European program, which accumulated delays and cost overruns.
A total of 174 A400M have been ordered by eight countries: Germany, France, Spain, UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, Turkey and Malaysia. Only 12 are in service today.
Four client countries Germany, Britain, Turkey and Malaysia decided to suspend flights, awaiting the results of the Spanish investigation into the causes of the accident.
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