Airbus lands safely after flight aborted
An A380 superjumbo on a test flight from France to Tunisia returned safely to Toulouse after a sensor indicated a possible problem with the landing gear, planemaker Airbus said on Tuesday .
"A sensor signalled a malfunction in the landing gear to the crew and the decision was made to return," a spokesman said. "At no time was safety an issue ... it's really a non-event."
The plane flew back to Toulouse and landed without incident, he said.
Airbus has five of the $300 million (158 million pound) planes in flight testing.
They have made more than 580 flights and logged over 1,800 hours in the air.
Parent firm EADS revealed in June that complications in wiring the mammoth planes were expected to delay deliveries scheduled over the next three years.
The news shook EADS shares and triggered a management shake-up.
The first A380 is still scheduled for delivery to Singapore Airlines late this year.
Shares in EADS, which owns 80 percent of Airbus, were up 3.27 percent at 23.38 euros as of 12:32 British time, buoyed by a Russian newspaper report which said Russian state bank Vneshtorgbank had accumulated a 5-percent stake in EADS.
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