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Qantas Spent 100,000 Hours Reviving Its Final Desert-Stored Airbus A380 – Then A Slat Broke On The 1st Flight

By PlaneNews Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:00:11 GMT Aviation news briefing

Qantas' final Airbus A380 emerges from desert storage after a 6-year engineering odyssey, only to face a damaged wing slat on its first flight.

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