{"id":40314,"date":"2024-05-10T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a340-written-off-before-delivery\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:30:12","slug":"how-a-new-a340-ended-up-written-off-before-it-was-even-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=40314","title":{"rendered":"How A New A340 Ended Up Written Off Before It Was Even Delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            On November 15, 2007, a brand-new <a href=\"http:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus-a340\">Airbus A340-600<\/a>, due to be delivered to <a href=\"http:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/etihad\">Etihad<\/a>, was written off after an incident at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS). The quadjet was set to join the Abu Dhabi-based carrier&#8217;s fleet within the next few days, but the acquisition was eventually canceled. It is extremely rare for a brand-new aircraft worth about $275.4 million ($316.8 million today) to be written off as beyond economical repair, so let us look at how this happened.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus A340-600 was beyond repair after an accident in Toulouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2853,789,396,996,408,1809,9039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a340-600","category-airbus-a340","category-aircraft","category-etihad-airways","category-history","category-hull-losses","category-toulouse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40317,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40314\/revisions\/40317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}