Etihad Airways

Etihad Airways (Code AITA: EY ; Code ICAO: ETD ) is a Airline company United Arab Emirates based with Abou Dabi.

It accomplished its first scheduled flight, EY 111 worms Beirut the November 12th 2003.

Float

Public transport

The fleet Etihad Airways comprises:

The company ordered four Airbus A380, their delivery, initially planned for 2007, was pushed back on a date ultérieure.
The current network covers the Europe, the Asia, the North America, the the United States, the the Middle East and the Australia.

Freight

Division freight of Etihad names Etihad Crystal Cargo liner. This one inaugurated the first commercial flight between the international airports of Abou Dhabi and Frankfurt.

In August 2006, its fleet consists of:

3 Airbus A300-600F,
1 Airbus A310-300F.

Accident

November 15th, 2007, a A340-600 nine intended to be delivered to Etihad Airways carries out tests engine statics on the ground on one of the surfaces of test of the Airbus factory of Saint Martin's day of Touch in the suburbs of Toulouse.
For an unknown reason, the plane is propelled on the wall antibruit of the surface that it climbing partially, the cockpit is detached from the plane. The plane is estimated at 240 million euros. The accident made ten wounded, including 3 low registers, mainly of the technicians who were on board the apparatus (2 employees of Airbus and 7 of a company émiratie of engineering and maintenance elected by Etihad Airways). A person on the ground was shocked but nonwounded. The plane is very damaged and nonrecoverable.

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