• Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, LCL PRODUCTION

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2006

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET, MOBILE

Before being officially approved, the A380, the world's largest aeroplane, was tested for twenty months in the worst possible conditions...

It's an unusual aeroplane: an 80-metre wingspan and a capacity of over 800 passengers, weighing in at nearly 560 tonnes... The official certification of the A380, on December 12th 2006, brought to a close a period of twenty months of tests, during which four prototypes were tested in the worst conditions imaginable: vibrations during the flight, landing on a flooded runway, taking off while at altitude... Jean Froment followed the tests with the pilots, engineers and mechanics of Airbus' Flight Test Centre in Toulouse, Canada, Dubai and Colombia.