An investigation has been launched in France into a crash at Toulouse airport involving an Airbus plane, which was ready for delivery to the Abu Dhabi base in the United Arab Emirates.
Etihad Airways is reported to have stated that it had nothing to do with its staff when the A340-600 plane crashed into a barrier, and in so doing causing injuries to five people who were on board at the time.
A spokesman for Etihad Airways explained that the injured people were from a firm contracted to test the plane before it was delivered to its new destination.
None of the injuries the workers sustained were described as serious and the cause of the crash remains undetermined at present.
The Airbus A340 was said by the airline concerned to have been due to be delivered next week to the base in Abu Dhabi.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
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