One A340-600 suffered a stress crack on the main fitting of a main gear leg. The crack was caused by excess torque-stress in the gear leg when the aircraft made tight turns during taxiing. This was ...

Airbus says the successful trial in February of an electrically activated braking system (EABS) on its A340-600 development aircraft could pave the way for use of the technology in a next-generation ...

Certain Airbus A340-500 and -600 operators are set to be ordered to replace centre landing-gear axles on the type after concerns that a batch underwent improper maintenance treatment. The European ...