All aircraft giant Airbus A380 model will have to be reviewed by a problem of cracks. FILE

• They present a problem of cracks in the wings

The revision will affect 68 aircraft A380 that has delivered to airlines, but also some thirty who are at different stages of its Assembly

Paris, France (08/FEB/2012)-all aircraft giant Airbus A380 model have to be reviewed by a problem of cracks whose origin is in the process of manufacture of a part of the wings, which will mean a hundred devices, today announced the European manufacturer.

Airbus today indicated that the review will affect 68 aircraft A380 that has delivered to airlines, but also some thirty who are at different stages of its Assembly with wings carried out through the manufacturing process, they now have to change at its British plant in Broughton.

A spokesman for the aircraft manufacturer insisted the checks and repairs, which are covered by the guarantee of Airbus, have no urgency or prevent that aircraft continue to operate.

In particular, have to be carried out during the thousand 300 first flights of the aircraft, which often correspond to two years of activity since its commissioning.

Airbus has not reported on the cost of repairs and modifications in the industrial processes in Broughton.

According to the aircraft manufacturer, the fissures were observed in routine inspections that are often carried out by the airlines, and were detected in the inner part where the ribs of the wings are fixed his skin (coverage).

The spokesman stressed that cracks detected dimension do not pose a security risk, and it is not a failure of conception, “the design of the aircraft is perfect”.

He also pointed out that the failure in the manufacturing process that motivates that they will generate refers to the Assembly of some of the panels that make up the wings, but not all wings.

Airbus took off his importance to European Agency of aviation safety (EASA) forces to extend inspections and repairs to all A380, where the past January 20 had limited them to two dozen aircraft, those who accumulate more than 1,300 hours of flight.

Since these revisions have already carried out for some of the aircraft that have been able to return to operate.

EFSA was activated in January to observe some cracks larger such as those that are known that they are generated in other models of aircraft after take a while in service and warned that “if they are not detected and corrected, it can affect potentially the structural integrity of the apparatus”.

Airbus has delivered up to now 68 units of the A380, a plane which in its standard version can carry 555 passengers.

The first company which incorporated it to its fleet, in 2007, was Singapore Airlines. What then did Emirates, Qantas, Air France, Lufthansa, Korean Airlines and China Southern.