All went wrong: A380 flight to China becomes 10-hour ordeal
For Chinese airports jostling to open more intercontinental routes, the sight of widebody aircraft operated by global airlines can be a potent status symbol.
But when an Emirates Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger airliner, touched down at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport last week – a novelty for the city’s planespotters, mostly accustomed to seeing smaller narrowbody jets – everything that could go wrong, did.
The plane’s 373 passengers endured what ultimately became a 10-hour...