Photos of the damage done to a Qantas A380 at Sydney Airport on March 31 have fallen into Crikey’s hands. They show what happens to the world’s largest passenger jet when the anti-skid braking system fails.
Plane crash
A timeline of Presidential plane crashes
Poland’s Lech Kaczynski isn’t the first world leader to plummet to his death a plane crash. Esquire looks at six other heads of state who met their makers mid-air, and the what Poland can learn from the subsequent fallouts.
So you survived a plane crash — now what?
Stay put. The biggest mistake stranded victims make is trying to swim. Body heat naturally creates a warm envelope of water around your person.
Can the Airbus’ image survive its second crash?
First it was Air France flight AF447, and now a Yemenia Air flight has crashed into the Indian Ocean, sending all but one passenger to their deaths. Can the Airbus’s image come out unscathed, or has it too been shot down in flames?
NY plane crash: Don’t study the safety card
There is something about single aisle jets like the one that splashed down on New York’s Hudson River today that you are never told in safety briefings, writes Ben Sandilands.
