Messier-Dowty is preparing to test noise-reducing components for its Airbus A340 landing gears as part of the European SILENCER noise-reduction programme. Add-on fairings have been designed for the ...

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) that reduces the main landing gear bogie beam life limits on certain Airbus A330 and A340 models, and ...

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 ...

Iberia has retrieved an Airbus A340-600 damaged in a hard landing at Quito, but has yet to determine when the aircraft will re-enter airline service. The aircraft touched down hard on Quito’s runway ...