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A-380: altitude tests in the highest airport in the world

Bogota, Colombia - An aircraft's model landed yesterday at Rio Negro's airport

An A-380’s model, took off from Toulouse, yesterday arrived in Rio Negro, the Colombian Airport. The choice of European consortium to land an A-380 in that airport has not been casual because the air station is situated at 2180 m above sea-level. The arrival’s reason of the greatest world airplane in the Colombian airport has been that to carry out some flight tests to obtain the altitude certification and...

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Rome, Italy, 01/11/2006 15:39
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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