Gareth Corfield. Thu 25 Jul 2019 // 10:02 UTC. Some models of Airbus A350 airliners still need to be hard rebooted after exactly 149 hours, despite warnings from the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) first issued two years ago. In a mandatory airworthiness directive (AD) reissued earlier this week, EASA urged operators to turn their A350s offQatar Airways and Airbus said they had a reached “an amicable and mutually agreeable settlement” to a dispute over the A350 aircraft which has been rumbling for more than two years, ahead of a A Finnair Airbus A350-900, registration OH-LWA performing flight AY-1963 (sched. dep Dec 10th, act. dep Dec 11th) from Helsinki (Finland) to Dubai… Dec 12, 2021 Incident
However, the Commission concluded that the descent below 100 feet was not deliberate and could have resulted in a failure to account for visual and aural information used to determine an aircraft's height. In any case, the aircraft was a write-off, with the crash being the first hull loss and fatal accident involving the Airbus A320.
As we noted in a previous article, ​​​​United Airlines had initially ordered 25 Airbus A350-900s in 2010. This deal has been adjusted several times over the years. In 2013 this order was changed to 35 A350-1000s but in 2017 the airline changed it to 45 A350-900s. o3R4.