The jumbojet from Singapore Airlines rolled onto grass at Changi airport today. The plane was on her way to Sydney, Australia with 446 passengers onboard while the tow-truck failed on the runway. The plane suffered from minor damage and the passengers were deplaned to board another plane. Officials said the hydraulics failed on a truck towing the plane, which was not running on its own power at the time.
This is the first A380 accident with passengers onboard. In September 2007, before its demonstration flight at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport in Thailand, A380 scraped its wing tip on a hangar’s gate due to human errors, according to officials.
Just came across this YouTube, which is quite entertaining. A380 was getting his evacuation certification in Hamburg, Germany. The task was to get 853 passengers and 20 crew out of the plane within 90 seconds, using 8 out of the 16 exits.
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