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The press and media later
questioned the fly-by-wire
flight control system but
subsequent investigations by
commission of inquiry found
"no malfunction of the aircraft
or its equipment which could have
contributed towards a reduction in safety or
an increase in the crew's workload during
the final flight phase ... the response of the
engines was normal and in compliance with
certification requirement”.
An Airbus A321 on final assembly line 3 in the Airbus plant in
Hamburg
The Toulouse Blagnac final assembly line builds A320s, whereas the Hamburg
Finkenwerder final assembly line builds A318s, A319s, and A321s.
The Airbus factory in Tianjin, China assembles A319s, A320s, and A319s; A320s and
A321s are also assembled at the Airbus Americas factory in Mobile, Alabama.
Airbus produced 42 A320 per month in 2015, and expects to increase to 50 per month
in 2017.
As Airbus targets a 60 monthly global production rate by mid-2019, the Tianjin line
delivered 51 in 2016 and it could assemble six per month from four as it starts
producing A320neos in 2017; 147 Airbus were delivered in 2016 in China, 20% of its
production, mostly A320-family, a 47% market share as the country should become the
world’s largest market ahead of the USA before 2027.
In the X-Plane production line there are several commercial versions of the A320 and to
name some of them are :
JarDesign Group
QPAC
Peter Hager (Peters Aircraft}
A irbus A320
May 2017
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