Airbus Safety Checks to Be Extended - Wall Street Journal

BY DAVID PEARSON

PARIS—European aviation-safety authorities on Wednesday issued a notice requiring all airlines operating the Airbus A380 superjumbo jetliner to get their aircraft checked for possible cracks in brackets inside the planes' wings.

It is the second such directive by the European Aviation Safety Agency. Last month, the agency directed operators flying aircraft that have more than 1,300 takeoffs and landings in their logbooks to undergo inspections. That directive applied to 20 A380 aircraft currently in service.

The safety agency now plans to extend the requirement to all of the 68 A380s now in service, regardless of their age, EASA spokesman Dominique ...