F-GLGG Air France Airbus A320-211

Information about the Airbus A320-211

Airbus Industrie began as a consortium of European aviation firms in 1967 when British, French and German governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop the first Airbus airliner the Airbus A300. Today Airbus and Boeing dominate the Worlds airliner production, the largest airliner in production for many decades has been the Boeing 747 Jumbo series but  the new Airbus A380, due to enter service in 2007 is even larger and is already being referred to by some as the "Superjumbo".

The Airbus A320 is a twin engined, single aisle passenger airliner seating 180, the aircraft first flew on the 22nd February 1987.

Information about Air France

Air France was formed in October 1933 and nationalized in 1946 becoming the national airline of France, in February 1999 Air France was privatised and in September 2003 merged with KLM forming the Air France-KLM Group becoming one of the largest airlines in the world. Unfortunately Air France is probably best known for the world's most notorious air-crash when Air France Concorde Flight 4590 crashed in Gonesse, France, on the 25th of July 2000 after having it's tyres ruptured on take-off by a piece of a titanium thrust reverser fallen from a Continental Airlines DC-10 just a few minutes earlier.

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