The aircraft they were flying on, a state-of-the-art Airbus A380, would go on to suffer a catastrophic uncontained engine failure shortly after takeoff. Almost 500 lives hung in the balance as the ...

Singapore Airlines is next, with just 13. Airbus ended production of the A380 in 2021 — 18 years after it began. The four-engine plane received 251 orders from 14 customers, with many airlines ...