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Airbus A 340 is a long-range, four-engine, large-format aircraft engineered and manufactured by the Airbus Group, the leading global aircraft manufacturer.... Toulouse, France, was the site of assembly of the Airbus A 340. In the 1970' s, when Airbus was designing the Airbus A 300, the firm planned a large aircraft line-up to fight Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, two incumbent US aircraft and space companies.

Since its inception, Airbus had started research on Airbus A300B derivative products to help achieve this long-term objective. Before the first Airbus aircraft entered operation, Airbus had previously recognised nine possible variants of the Airbus A 300 as A300B1 to B9. 13] A tenth variant designed in 1973, later the first to be built, was given the designation A300B10.

It was a smaller airplane that was to be evolved into the long-range Airbus A310. The Airbus focus then shifted to the singles island segment, resulting in the Airbus A 320 Family, the first ever civil jet fly-by-wire jet. Airbus departments were established by the German government's choice to work on the Airbus A 320 instead of a four-engine plane.

14 ] When the SA or "Single Aisle" trials (which later became the A320 ) were developed to test the Boeing 737s and Douglas DC-9s in the narrowbody and widebody markets, Airbus returned to the wide-body world. Another contributing element was the different preferences of those within Airbus and especially of potential airline clients.

Adam Brown, Airbus VP Strategy Development, recalled: "The first TA9 and TA11 specification were published in 1982. At the same the Airbus also outlined the TA12, a twin-jet TA11 derivation optimized for shorter cruising ranges of 3,700 km (2,000 nm).

Until the Paris Air Show in June 1985, TA9 and TA11 were further refined, among them the introduction of the Airbus' Airbus A320 flying decks, fly-by-wire FBW and sidestick controls. The introduction of a joint Airbus aircraft cabin enabled significant economies of scale for Airbus operations and crew switching after one full working day.

26 ] The components were designed to be modules and, where possible, exchangeable with other Airbus aircraft[25] in order to lower manufacturing, servicing and operational cost. It was Airbus who had been in talks with McDonnell Douglas to join forces to manufacture the plane that would have been known as the AM 300. Although it was planned from the outset that the A340 would be driven by four CFM56-5 110 kN (25,000 pounds) units,[30] Airbus had also thought about designing the plane as a tripod due to the limitations of the engine at the outset, namely the Rolls-Royce RB211-535 and Pratt & Whitney JT10D-232[31] (PW2000 renamed in December 1980).

In the course of further development of the Airbus A340, International Aero Engines, a group consisting of Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, Japanese Aero Engines Corporation, Fiat and MTU Aero Engines (MTU), introduced a radically new propulsion system variant. Lufthansa received the first Airbus -200 on 2 February 1993 and put it into operation on 15 March.

The first A340-300, the 1000th Airbus, was handed over to Air France on 26 February, the first of nine aircraft to go into service by the end of the year. 43 ] Air France replaces the Boeing 747 with the A340 on Paris-Washington D.C. and flies four flights a week. The Airbus has placed the bigger version of the Airbus A 350, in particular the A350-900 and A350-1000, as successor of the A340-500 and A340-600.

In 1998, the first A340-300, 4R-ADA, which went into operation at Frankfurt Airport, was the first carrier in Asia to use the A40. During February 2004, the airline's A340-500 operated the longest non-stop business aircraft in the industry and operated a non-stop connection between Singapore and Los Angeles. 88 ] In 2004, Singapore Airlines took off on an even longer non-stop stretch with the A340-500 between Newark and Singapore, SQ 21, a 15,344-kilometre stretch that was the longest non-stop schedule passenger trip in the book.

89 ] The carrier maintained this service on a regular basis until the carrier chose to discontinue the aircraft in favor of new A380s and A350s;[90] its last Airbus 380 was operated at the end of 2013. Four different models of the A 340 are available. One of the first two editions of the Airbus A4, the -200 seats 261 people in a three-class aircraft with a cruising distance of 13,800 km (7,500 nmi) or 240 people in a three-class aircraft with a cruising distance of 15,000 km (8,100 nmi).

An Airbus A340-8000 was ordered by Princes Jefri Bolkiah, who demanded a non-stop distance of 15,000 kilometers (8,100 nmi). In addition to the -8000, some A340-200s are used for either V.I.P. or defence purposes; among the customers are Royal Brunei Airlines, Qatar Amiri Flight, the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Royal Saudi Air Force, Jordan and the French Air Force.

These aircrafts carry the designation A340-213X. In July 2017, Air Leisure withdrew the last example of the A340-200. 109 ] All still in service A340-200s still in service after July 2017 are either V.I.P. or executive jets. Lufthansa is the biggest carrier of this model, operating a total of 30 aircrafts.

Thai Airways International delivered the A340-541, a lower-rated certified A340, on April 11, 2007 as its first shipment. The A340-600 made its maiden voyage on 23 April 2001. November 15, 2007 - An A340-600 was struck during soil tests at the Airbus site at Toulouse Blagnac International Airport.

A number of security check were deactivated during an aero power test prior to delivery,[142] resulting in the unchocked airplane speeding up to 31 kts (57 km/h) and clashing with a jet deflector. 142 ][143] The airplane was depreciated and later used in the Virgin Atlantic air steward ship operator education at Crawley. March 20, 2009 - Emirates Airline 407 was an Emirates Airline that flew an A340-500 from Melbourne to Dubai International.

From Melbourne International and Melbourne International the plane could not take off correctly and hit several parts at the end of the strip before finally returning to the airfield to land safely. Fires caused considerable damages to the front part of the plane and 10 persons were slightly injured. 148 ] The change was classified as uneconomical and the airplane was depreciated.

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