Scorpio From Belgium, joined Oct 2001, 4934 posts, RR: 47 Reply 2, posted (11 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1044 times:
The first version, the B1, made its maiden flight in 1972, and the B2, the first production A300, entered service in 1974.
The aircraft that crashed was an A300-605R, a variant which is an advanced version of the original A300. This specific aircraft, N14053, was delivered new to AA on June 13th 1988.
Lehpron From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 7028 posts, RR: 22 Reply 5, posted (11 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 924 times:
Isn't the A300-600 that "fat-guppy cargojet"?
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David_itl From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 7144 posts, RR: 14 Reply 6, posted (11 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 915 times:
Daniel
Is that a German passenger specification because they can have as many as 361 passengers in the case of Monarch. Remember we British like to squeeze people in our charter aircraft.
Airsicknessbag From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 4723 posts, RR: 38 Reply 7, posted (11 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 913 times:
No, the A300-600 (or A300B4-600/A300B4-600R, to put it correctly) are the normal pax planes; the Super Transporters are their derivatives, "A300B4-608ST".
Airsicknessbag From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 4723 posts, RR: 38 Reply 9, posted (11 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 906 times:
I actually didn´t find numbers for the -600; I assumed B4-200 and B4-600 to have the same number of pax, given their identical outer dimensions. My bad - thanks for correcting it, David.
GKirk From UK - Scotland, joined Jun 2000, 24621 posts, RR: 58 Reply 11, posted (11 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 893 times:
I have flown on Air Scandic A300B4-200 NCL-TFS-NCL with 317 seats (all full BTW), But the a/c had a big gap in seats as it seemed there was a front cabin and a back cabin (from the days when the a/c was with Finnair), and I flew MON A300-600R MAN-TFS-MAN with 361 seats. I found both flights pretty comfortable.
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VS744 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 677 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (11 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 851 times:
I have done MON A300-600R from MAN to TFS 4 hours 30 (rtn) and MAN to Rhodes 4 hours 10(rtn) and it was VERY cramped.
The seating is 3-3-3 and if you are sat in the middle seat, you have to wait for the outer people to finish eating before you can start!!!!
nice smooth a/c though
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