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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
in december after 9/11/01 i flew to italy with my four daughters and my mom. i made the reservation on about 9/6 and couldnt cancel. after getting my flight info i looked it up. the airbus we took was the same model as the one the tail fell off a couple days after 9/11. over the atlantic we ran into some very heavy turbulance. enough that at least half the passengers got air sick (me not thankfully). i just kept praying for the integrity of the tail.
after we got home i told everyone about the plane and the tail etc.
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Well, you got yourself all worked up over nothing.
The Airbus that lost the tail was an A300-600R. It has a maximum range of about 4000 nm. No carrier would attempt to use this aircraft to go from Chicago to Rome.........a distance of 4200 nm.
AFAIK, no A300-600R aircraft traverses the Atlantic in scheduled service due to range/payload problems.
BTW, Alitalia doesn't have any Airbus aircraft other than the short range A320, single aisle twin. This aircraft does not fly across the Atlantic in scheduled service.