MORE than 220 jobs are to be created at a new aircraft maintenance company based at Dublin Airport.

Mechanical failure did not contribute to last month’s crash of an Airbus A320 in Sao Paulo, a senior executive with the aircraft manufacturer said.

The Airbus A380 has passed its emergency evacuation test, the European aircraft maker announced in Paris today, in an important step toward the superjumbo’s official certification for commercial flights.

Airbus parent European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company today approved the official launch of the new Airbus A350 plane, designed to rival Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.

A new radial tyre for Concorde, designed to avoid a repeat of last year’s Paris disaster, was unveiled today.