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XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
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XL Airways Germany Flight 888T
2008 aviation accident in the Mediterranean Sea
XL Airways Germany Flight 888T (GXL888T) was an acceptance flight for an Airbus A320 on 27 November 2008. The aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, 7 km off Canet-en-Roussillon on the French coast, close to the Spanish border, killing all seven people on board. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Airbus A320 family
Single-aisle airliner family by Airbus
The Airbus A320 family is a series of narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus. The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air France. The first member of the family was followed by the stretched A321,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Flight test
Branch of aeronautical engineering
Flight testing is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops technologies and equipment required for in-flight evaluation of behaviour of an aircraft or launch vehicles and reusable spacecraft at the atmospheric phase of flight. Instrumentation systems for flight testing…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Communes of France
French territorial subdivision for municipalities
A commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in Canada and the United States; Gemeinden in Germany; comuni in Italy; municipios in Spain; or civil parishes in the United…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Canet-en-Roussillon
Commune in Occitania, France
Canet-en-Roussillon is a commune and town in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales, administrative region of Occitania.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
November 27
Day of the year
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