{"id":281512,"date":"2019-07-11T05:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281512"},"modified":"2019-07-11T05:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T05:15:47","slug":"airbus-to-check-for-cracks-on-emirates-qantas-a380-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airbus-to-check-for-cracks-on-emirates-qantas-a380-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus to check for cracks on Emirates, Qantas A380 wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus SE will inspect the wings of its A380 double-decker jets after cracks were found on some planes.<\/p>\n<p>The fissures could reduce the structural integrity of the wings if not repaired, according to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, which is drafting an airworthiness directive on the issue. Aircraft won\u2019t need to be grounded, with fixes to be made during scheduled overhauls.<\/p>\n<p>Checks will initially affect 25 of the oldest superjumbos in service, including planes at Dubai-based Emirates, Qantas Airways Ltd. of Australia and Singapore Airlines Ltd. Remaining planes must be examined before they\u2019re 15 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus SE will inspect the wings of its A380 double-decker jets after cracks were found on some planes. The fissures could reduce the structural integrity of the wings if not repaired, according to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, which is drafting an airworthiness directive on the issue. Aircraft won\u2019t need to be grounded, with fixes to be made during scheduled overhauls. Checks will initially affect 25 of the oldest superjumbos in service, including planes at Dubai-based Emirates, Qantas Airways Ltd. of Australia and Singapore Airlines Ltd. Remaining planes must be examined before they\u2019re 15 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}