A380 - MID AIR CRISIS

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A Mid Air Crisis Over Australia

Mini Air Crash Investigation
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15 Jun
2024
This is the story of Singapore airlines flight 231. If you dont know the airbus A380 is the worlds largest passenger plane and that it carries a lot of people. Just to put things into context a typical emirates a380 can handle well above 500 people, while a 737 in an all economy configuration tops out at about 180 . It would take 4 737s to replace one A380 and thats with the space on the A380 being allocated to things like bars spas and showers. So the question is what do you do when such a large plane has an emergency well we thankfully havent had to find out, weve had a few close calls like quantas 32 and the story of Sigapore 231 is one of those lesser known stories.
On the 9th of february 2020 An airbus A380 was making the trip from Singapore to sydney, with singapore being a connecting hub and with so many people wanting to travel to sydney it makes sense to put an A380 on this route. On this day as the pilots approached sydney they were greeted by some bad news, the weather in sydney was not the best.