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PIA A300-B4 Reached 40,000ft Alt!

GF-A330 From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2001, 1643 posts, RR: 3
Posted (7 years 8 months 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 4007 times:

Video of PIA Airbus A300-B4 Setting the World Altitude record - 40,000 ft!!! The highest ever altitude by Airbus A300-B4 in commercial flying history: FL400. Captain Jazib Kamal, First Officer Umer, Flight Engineer Zakir flying from peshawar (main credit to the Captain). Video Credit Ali Uppal.

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N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79
Reply 1, posted (7 years 8 months 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 3832 times:

Quoting GF-A330 (Thread starter):
Video of PIA Airbus A300-B4 Setting the World Altitude record - 40,000 ft!!! The highest ever altitude by Airbus A300-B4 in commercial flying history: FL400. Captain Jazib Kamal, First Officer Umer, Flight Engineer Zakir flying from peshawar (main credit to the Captain). Video Credit Ali Uppal.

Anyone know the A300's ceiling altitude?

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Jacobin777 From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 14968 posts, RR: 61
Reply 2, posted (7 years 8 months 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 3774 times:

lol...its funny to listen to them speaking partly in urdu........but congrats to PK on the achievement.... bigthumbsup

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JeffSFO From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 820 posts, RR: 5
Reply 3, posted (7 years 8 months 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 3372 times:

Great video--they seem to be having a good time up there.

Quoting N1120A (Reply 1):
Anyone know the A300's ceiling altitude?

That's the million dollar question, nobody seems to know for sure and the answers vary quite a bit:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...+%2B+%22service+ceiling%22&spell=1

The highest I've seen published online is 40K feet. If that's accurate, it makes the PIA record all the more impressive.

Cheers,
Jeff

Note: Edited to correct a minor mistake.

[Edited 2005-09-23 11:32:50]

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HAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31201 posts, RR: 58
Reply 4, posted (7 years 8 months 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 3051 times:

Quoting Jacobin777 (Reply 2):
lol...its funny to listen to them speaking partly in urdu........but congrats to PK on the achievement....

Very Similiar to the Crew out here.Mix of various languages.Nice Video.
Congrats.
bigthumbsup

Think of the brighter side!

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