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Cancelled orders from two key airlines airbus to finally discontinue the model. it's the end of a rather short era barely a decade after the world's biggest cost and jet first took to the air its maker is calling it a day airbus had hoped the a three eighty she would squeeze out boeing seven four seven and revolutionize air travel and it was popular among passengers who gave it high marks for comfort space quite right but airlines were cautious about committing to the costly double decker planes and in the end they just weren't willing to pay the most of price tag to own the flying behemoth. n...

And fill an aircraft that can seat about eight hundred or more passengers you first have to sell those tickets and i was very difficult for for those few airlines who actually bought the a three eighty and of course it is because of its size it's a four engine aircraft and those four engines their very first day they use an awful lot of fuel and that is very costly so a lot of airlines rather switched to smaller also long haul airline jets which now only have two engines and they're much more sufficient so what was the big mistake from airbus there was a trying to go for a plane that was just ...

Passengers who gave it high marks for comfort space to quiet right but airlines were cautious about committing to the costly double decker planes and in the end they just weren't willing to pay the muss of price tag to own the flying behemoth. at the company's annual press conference and to lose france airbus c.e.o. tom enders acknowledged the plane with. what we're seeing is. a large four engine aircraft and that is what it is i mean there's been speculation . for years that we were ten years to creating thing becomes clear we're probably at least ten years too late but the a three a she expe...

Has given you clues as to what kind of skill level the mechanic had. i'm not sure whether you can see this but this is showing the -- what have you learned from this? what do i bleen from the videos? >> several things. first of all, he took a twin turbo-prop plane. the easiest thing to fly or at least what you start on, there's debate on b what's the easiest thing to fly. but you start out on a single engine aircraft where the landing gear does not retract. you take off, only one engine. all you need to know is the speed on which you can pulling back the yolk, rotate an the plane gets airborne...

Plane. i don't think this was the first flight certainly. and the communications back and forth with the tower at one point asking if there were other pilots on the line, asking about what kind of chop he would get into over the mountain areas. this went on for quite a period of time and it did emso liseem e air traffic controller had some familiarity with them. so as the picture becomes, you know, more and more flushed out, this is someone who was familiar with the airport. you know, you almost are tempted to say it was someone who kind of snapped because he clearly enjoyed the flight, enjoye...